This is more of a musical revue with a slight edge of a plot, and truly enjoyable only when the Andrews Sisters are singing or some well known clowns are providing some dated but still humorous chuckles. Of course, when the Andrews Sisters get loose with "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" (with anybody else but me....), it almost tops their performance of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" in Abbott and Costello's earlier "Buck Privates", of which this is obviously a low budget follow-up to. Ted Lewis leads the band, and performs "Me and My Shadow" (with a black dancer, of course...), while Shemp Howard and Mary Wickes provide the necessary amount of laughs simply by searching for a table in a nightclub to make this (barely) a passable time filler. Of course, Mary Wickes could flip pancakes and crack jokes in her deadpan manner and she'd steal the show.
Review of Private Buckaroo
