IN THE NAVY
(Universal)
HEN I reviewed Buck Privates, the first Abbott-Cos-tello comedy to reach New Zealand, I remarked that it was
good. fun, but rather difficult to say why. And now that In the Navy has arrived (with all the inevitability of American comedy cycles), I again find it a little difficult to say, not why I laughed, but why I laughed so much. Most of the jokes are Mark 1, and the situations in general are as old as Charlie Chaplin, but they go over. I might add that I was one of a thin lunch-hour house, and even that had little dampening effect, so presumably Messrs. Abbott and Costello are good entertainers. The film may lack some of the pristine sparkle of its predecessor, but it is good workmanlike
entertainment, and in one or two scenes, such as that in which Abbott relieves Costello of his payroll by an old confidence trick, it is pretty close to first-class farce. The Andrews Sisters are in the cast again, and as if they weren’t enough, Messrs. Dick Powell and Foran also relieve their feelings (but not mine), in song. I could have done with the humour without the harmony, but probably Universal didn’t have me solely in view during production. Nevertheless, I was satisfied on the whole, and shall be pleased to meet A. and C. again when they join the Air Force,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 125, 14 November 1941, Page 16
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234IN THE NAVY New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 125, 14 November 1941, Page 16
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