Go West

1925

1h 9m

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6.9/10

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Comedy

Western

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

Directors

Buster Keaton

Writers

Buster Keaton(story by)

Lex Neal(story by)

Stars

Buster Keaton

Howard Truesdale

Kathleen Myers

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Buster Keaton

Friendless

Howard Truesdale

Owner of the Diamond Bar Ranch

Kathleen Myers

His Daughter

Ray Thompson

The Foreman

Brown Eyes

Herself

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Woman in Department Store (uncredited)

Joe Keaton

Man in Barber Shop (uncredited)

Gus Leonard

General Store Owner (uncredited)

Babe London

Woman in Department Store (uncredited)

Directors

Buster Keaton

Writers

Buster Keaton(story by)

Lex Neal(story by)

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Although I did quite enjoy this lively outing for Buster Keating, I did think it just a little tame at times. He cuts quite a lonely figure as he struggles to find his feet at home. There are no jobs and he’s not exactly beating away his friends with a stick. New York! There must be opportunities there? Well possibly, but he loathes the place and it doesn’t care much for him either. Maybe the “Wild West”? Well he doesn’t make it very far before he topples from the train - and right into his own, quite comical, pile of virtual manure. That’d be cow manure! Turns out he might have found his true vocation - even if it is despite himself, and to the chagrin of just about everyone else at the “Diamond Bar Ranch”. In many ways this plays out like an observation of real life. Not just for this hapless soul, but for the town still controlled by the rancher - in this case Howard Truesdale, who had the eligible daughter (Kathleen Myers) with whom, well you can guess the rest. It’s quickly paced and the production manages to actively incorporate loads of the urban hustle and bustle, as well as it’s more rural equivalent quite entertainingly. There are a few inter-titles but they’re largely superfluous to a plot that thrives on some slapstick, certainly, but mainly on the facial expressions of a character actor who makes a fish-out-of-water look exactly that - and one we only ever really laugh with rather than at. It’s good fun, this; pokes a little mischief at the macho cowboy culture and is an effortless hour of light-heartedness to watch.

Geronimo196705 Feb, 2025