Buck Privates is the 1941 (1941 in film) comedy (comedy film)/World War II film that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bonafide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The comedy team made two more service comedies before the United States entered the war (In the Navy (In the Navy (film)) and Keep Em Flying). A sequel to this movie, Buck Privates Come Home, was released in 1947 (1947 in film). Buck Privates is one of three A&C films featuring The Andrews Sisters, who were also under contract to Universal Pictures at the time.

Abbott and Costello performed a radio version of the film on the Lux Radio Theater on October 13, 1941.