Thursday, May 17, 2012

May 16th 
Go West**                              
US 1925. Metro-Goldwyn. 70m. bw. silent

An incompetent drifter can't cope with city life and tries his hand at being a cattle rancher.
Typically quirky and inventive Keaton spoof on the Western genre, with an opening reel that echoes Chaplin-style sentiment (but lacking the Tramp's pathos), quickly dispensed towards a touching bovine romance and a rollicking finale with the cattle wandering through the city as if like idle children.

Written and Directed by: Buster Keaton, Lex Neal, from a story by Raymond Cannon.
Producer: Joseph M. Schenck.
Starring: Buster Keaton, Brown Eyes, Kathleen Myers, Howard Truesdale, Ray Thompson.
Photography: Elgin Lessley, Bert Haines.



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