In the Navy is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Dick Powell, Claire Dodd and The Andrews Sisters.

[4] Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using his real name, Tommy Halstead.

Aboard the battleship Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smokey and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.

Pomeroy is in love with Patty Andrews, sends her numerous fan letters, and tries to impress her with false tales of his physique and his naval rank.

[5] There was, however, one problem before it could be released: when the film was screened for the Navy, officers were offended by the sequence where Pomeroy (Costello) impersonates a captain and puts the battleship through a series of madcap maneuvers.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote: "Maybe they aren't quite as funny as they were in Buck Privates, but even fair with Abbott and Costello is good enough for now ...