---
title: 'Buck Privates (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Arthur Lubin'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 85
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/buck-privates-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033436/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Buck Privates (1941)

1941 · 85 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Buck Privates is a 1941 American musical military comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bona fide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The comedy team made two more service comedies before the United States entered the war. A sequel to this movie, Buck Privates Come Home, was released in 1947. Buck Privates is one of three Abbott and Costello films featuring The Andrews Sisters, who were also under contract to Universal Pictures at the time.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Arthur Lubin](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-lubin)
- **Screenplay:** [Arthur T. Horman](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-t-horman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Charles Previn](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-previn)
- **Producer:** [Alex Gottlieb](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-gottlieb)
- **Director of Photography:** [Milton Krasner](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-krasner)
- **Editor:** [Philip Cahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-cahn)

## Cast

- [Shemp Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/shemp-howard)
- [Selmer Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/selmer-jackson)
- [Carleton Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/carleton-young)
- [Lou Costello](https://cinepixo.com/people/lou-costello)
- [Alan Curtis](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-curtis-2)
- [James Flavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-flavin)
- [Jean Brooks](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-brooks)
- [The Andrews Sisters](https://cinepixo.com/people/the-andrews-sisters)
- [Bud Abbott](https://cinepixo.com/people/bud-abbott)
- [Harold Goodwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-goodwin)
- [Jack Mulhall](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-mulhall)
- [Charles Pearce Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-pearce-coleman)
- [Nella Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/nella-walker)
- [Tom Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-reed)
- [George Magrill](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-magrill)

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