{"product_id":"0014381429626","title":"Abbott \u0026 Costello: In The Navy","description":"\"In the Navy was their second release, but it was actually Abbott \u0026amp; Costello's third starring movie -- following Buck Privates, they'd made Hold That Ghost, but the first movie was so phenomenally successful that the second was held back by Universal Pictures, which rushed them back to make In the Navy. The Andrews Sisters were back and did some acting as well as singing this time, and the others aboard include Dick Powell in the kind of light leading man acting role that he had before Murder My Sweet, Dick Foran (himself a singer and light leading man) as the duo's foe -- a short-tempered CPO, and Shemp Howard back in a small comic support part. This movie has even less \"\"plot\"\" than Buck Privates -- singing star Powell tries to escape his fame and lack of a personal life by enlisting anonymously in the Navy, where he crosses paths with Abbott \u0026amp; Costello while trying to avoid a pursuing reporter (Claire Dodd. The comedy isn't as inspired as the best moments in Buck Privates, but it's enough to entertain for 85 minutes. Some of the humor relies on language and slang that's been lost over the decades -- when Costello gets a cable from his girl telling him she's taking \"\"the Clipper\"\" (meaning the Pan-Am air clipper) to Hawaii, he's upset because he thinks he's been thrown over for a barber. The DVD is a direct transfer from the MCA laserdisc master, very slightly sharper than the image on the latter and with decently robust sound. There are no extras and the 16 chapter breaks, amazingly, don't include references to each of the Andrews Sisters' numbers (which include the bouncy \"\"Hula Ba Luau,\"\" the rousing \"\"You're Off to See the World,\"\" and \"\"Gimme Some Skin, My Friend\"\") or the other musical numbers featured. Watching the movie today, one must concede, it is possible to feel a mild sense of foreboding -- In the Navy was released in the late spring of 1941, five months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, but a key plot point concerns doubts about the maneuverability of battleships, the very factor that would doom that part of the fleet at Pearl Harbor. It's a very innocent film, and it was perhaps the last light-hearted look that pop culture would take at the Navy for the next five years.\"","brand":"UNIVERSAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47093100347632,"sku":"0014381429626","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0014381429626_p0.jpg?v=1763763613","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0014381429626","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}