Private Buckaroo

Private Buckaroo


Universal, 1942, B/W, 65 minutes, ***

Premiere release May, 1942

General release June, 1942



Vintage WWII musical with The Andrews Sisters and Harry James and his Orchestra jumpin' and jivin' through basic training. Mostly a music revue with a shoestring plot to hold it together, but it's fun. With Joe E. Lewis. Lots of great music!



Associate Producer: Ken Goldsmith

Directed by: Edward F. Cline

Screen Play: Edmond Kelso, Edward James

Original Story: Paul Gerard Smith

Musical Director: Harry James

Orchestration: Vic Schoen, Jack Matthias

Dances Staged by: John Mattison

Art Director: Jack Otterson

Associate: Robert Boyle

Set Decorations: R. A. Gausman

Gowns: Vera West

Sound Director: Bernard B. Brown

Technician: Paul Neal

Director of Photography: Woody Bredell

Film Editor: Milton Carruth



Cast: The Andrews Sisters [Maxene, Patty, LaVerne], Dick Foran [Lon Prentice], Joe E. Lewis [Lancelot Pringle McBiff], Jennifer Holt [Joyce Mason], Shemp Howard [Sergeant "Muggsy" Shavel], Richard Davies [Lieutenant Mason], Mary Wickes [Bonnie-Belle Schlopkiss], Ernest Truex [Colonel Weatherford], Donald O'Connor [Donny], Peggy Ryan [Peggy], Huntz Hall [Corporal Anemic], Susan Levine [Tagalong], The Jivin' Jacks and Jills [Themselves], Harry James and His Music Makers [Themselves], Helen Forrest [Herself]



Musical Program: [0:00] You Made Me Love You (sung by Helen Forrest with Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:05] Private Buckaroo (sung by Dick Foran with Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:12] unidentified instrumental (played by Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:14] I Love the South (sung by Joe E. Lewis with Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:19] Three Little Sisters (sung by the Andrews Sisters with Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:24] Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie (sung by Dick Foran and Chorus [as enlistees] with Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:29] Six Jerks in a Jeep (sung by the Andrews Sisters); [0:35] That's the Moon My Son (sung by the Andrews Sisters with Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:40] Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen (sung by Dick Foran, Helen Forrest and Chorus with Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:52] unidentified instrumental (played by Harry James and His Music Makers); [0:55] Don't Sit under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) (sung by the Andrews Sisters with Harry James and His Music Makers; danced by Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan and Kids); [1:02] We've Got a Job to Do (sung by Dick Foran and Mens Chorus); [1:04] Johnny Get Your Gun Again (sung by the Andrews Sisters with Harry James and His Music Makers); [1:07] We've Got a Job to Do (reprised by the Andrews Sisters)