mike48128 Review of Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home (1947)

A Winner! Never saw it before! Great car chase climax!

[9/10 · 25 April 2016]

Nat Pendelton (The Sarge and The Cop) follows the boys into separation from The Army. All of the original cast members are there, plus a precocious little actress as a French Orphan girl, who steals the show. No accent at all, but she's great. A very tight and involved plot for an A&C "B" film. In order to keep "Evy" in "the states: a married couple with employment must adopt her or she goes back to a French Orphanage. Enter the gorgeous blonde ex-WAC and her race car inventor- hubby. Many funny routines, double-takes and action sequences. Lou is in rare form. Yes, the climax is Costello in one of those famously impossible Universal back-lot car chases like the ones in the 1940's W.C. Fields (and other) movies. He can't drive, so he wreaks havoc and several other things in a midget race car. In the "big race", 12 such midget race cars are involved. Flows wonderfully. Very little to do with The Army after the opening scenes and flashbacks. Did I mention it is extremely funny? Thank you again, TCM!