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Abbott & Costello have fun being in the Navy, 11 Nov 2004
Abbott & Costello follow up their success in "Buck Privates" with another service comedy, "In the Navy," also directed by Arthur Lubin. Russ Raymond (Dick Powell), the top crooner on the radio, abandons his career and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. He is assigned to the U.S.S. Alabama, where he meets up with Smoky Adams (Abbott) and Pomeroy Watson (Costello), and they all have to endure Chief Petty Officer Dynamite Dugan (Dick Foran). The two main story lines here have to do with romance. Young newspaper photographer Dorothy Roberts (Claire Dodd) sneaks on board to get candid photos of "Tommy," and they fall in love. Meanwhile, Pomeroy has been writing love letters to Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters, saying he is an officer instead of a baker. To impress her on Visitor's Day, Pomeroy pretends to be the captain and tries to put on an impressive show for his lady love. This film's official title was "Abbott and Costello and Dick Powell in the Navy," a way of keeping everybody happy with the billing. This film finds the boys doing their famous "Lemon Bit," when Smoky makes change for Pomeroy's cash and keeps asking questions involving numbers to change the count. Shemp Howard plays Dizzy in this scene, but he is given nothing special to do. Costello also has a classic bit where he simply tries to get into his hammock. Surprisingly, "In the Navy" was a bigger hit than "Buck Privates," and finally convinced the studio that they could carry a film by themselves. I do not think it is quiet as funny, mainly because the boys are forced to share so much screen time with Powell and the Andrews Sisters, but this is one of their better comedies.
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