The first book to focus in detail on the immensely popular wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the production, content, and reception of 18 films within the context of wartime events on the home front and abroad. More than 120 stills and lobby cards illustrate the text, including many showing outtakes or deleted scenes.

Table of Contents Foreword by Chris Costello      Preface      Introduction      1. New Jersey Boys Make Good      2. On the Land and On the Sea: Buck Privates (1941) and In the Navy (1941)      3. Money in a Moose Head: Hold That Ghost (1941)      4. In the Air Corps: Keep ’Em Flying (1941)      5. B Western Bunk: Ride ’Em Cowboy (1942)      6. The Nazis of MGM: Rio Rita (1942)      7. Widespread Comic Relief: Pardon My Sarong (1942) and Who Done It? (1942)      8. Stallions and Skaters: It Ain’t Hay (1943) and Hit the Ice (1943)      9. Sickness and Slapstick: Lost in a Harem (1944)      10. Clique and Campus: In Society (1944) and Here Come the Co-eds (1945)      11. Who’s in Uncle Tom’s Cabin? The Naughty Nineties (1945)      12. Lucy and Lou: Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)      13. Postwar Experiments: Little Giant (1946) and The Time of Their Lives (1946)      14. Back from the Front: Buck Privates Come Home (1947)      15. Cold War Monsters      Appendix: The Feature Films of Abbott and Costello      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index