Buck Privates Come Home (1947) on Netflix
NR19471h 17mActionComedyFamily
Herbie Brown and Slicker Smith sail home from wartime Europe with Evey, a French orphan hidden in Herbie's duffle bag. Sergeant Collins, their old nemesis, is on the same ship.
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Plot summary
Herbie Brown and Slicker Smith return to the United States on a troop ship after serving in Europe during World War II. Sergeant Collins, their old nemesis, is aboard. Collins and his superiors search the men's belongings for contraband, and Herbie throws out a time bomb he picked up as a souvenir, made to look like a camera. Evey, a six-year-old French orphan the two befriended, is found in Herbie's duffle bag.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
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- The film was originally budgeted at $1,167,500 but came in $34,500 over budget, making it the most expensive Abbott and Costello vehicle produced at Universal; the leads were paid $196,133.
- Scenes of Abbott and Costello in "Romeo and Juliet" outfits, with Betty Alexander as Juliet, were filmed and intended to be playing on the screen of the theater Costello drives his midget car through, but the scene was deleted; a poster for the fictional Abbott and Costello in "Romeo Junior" remains on the wall.
