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1 November 1925 (USA)
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A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city...
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Buster And His Bovine - Not A Bad Film
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(Complete credited cast)| Buster Keaton | ... | Friendless | |
| Howard Truesdale | ... | Ranch owner | |
| Kathleen Myers | ... | Ranch owner's daughter | |
| Ray Thompson | ... | Ranch foreman | |
| Brown Eyes | ... | The Cow 'Brown Eyes' |
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69 min | Spain:65 min
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General store owner: [to Friendless] I'll give you a dollar sixty five for the whole business.
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General store owner: [to Friendless] I'll give you a dollar sixty five for the whole business.
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Referenced in "The Simpsons: Apocalypse Cow (#19.17)" (2008)
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No, as most critics have said, this isn't one of Buster Keaton's better feature films, but it's not bad and surely it is better than what you might have read in some critic's book. It has its moments and is a bit different in way, if you consider a man and cow falling in love with each other! (This should be a "cult classic!")
Buster heeds the advice, "Go West, Young Man, Go West," and winds up out in the middle of nowhere after crawling inside a barrel and then the barrel falling out of a train.
He winds up taking discarded cowboy clothes and trying his hand at that profession but, of course, has no clue even how to ride a horse. His only accomplishment is taking a stone out of a cow's hoof. The cow is so grateful, it follows Buster around the rest of the movie and the two become quite attached.
After some low-key attempts at several projects, Buster winds up - I am really condensing this - back on a train with the cattle hoping to be sold so that the almost-destitute boss can get enough money to save his ranch. The train is robbed, the cattle derailed and the herd winds up in the middle of a big city!
That's the real fun part of the film, as it is in so many silent comedies. The adventures of seeing a herd of cattle going down the main city streets and then into barbershops, Turkish baths, Ladies Department Stores, etc., is very funny.
The ending was very clever and final punch-line not what the viewers anticipate. All in all, not a lot of laugh-out-loud scenes but a decent Keaton silent film and definitely worth a watch. I am glad most of the reviewers here appreciated this movie.