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Go West ()

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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.
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Owner of the Diamond Bar Ranch
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His Daughter
Ray Thompson ...
The Foreman
Brown Eyes ...
Brown Eyes the Cow
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Friendless
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Woman in Department Store (uncredited)
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Man in Barber Shop (uncredited)
Gus Leonard ...
General Store Owner (uncredited)
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Woman in Department Store (uncredited)

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Buster Keaton

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Buster Keaton ... (written by)
 
Lex Neal ... (assistant writer)
 
Raymond Cannon ... (scenario)

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Buster Keaton ... producer (uncredited)
Joseph M. Schenck ... producer (uncredited)

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Konrad Elfers ... (uncredited)

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Bert Haines ... (photography)
Elgin Lessley ... (photography)

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D.C. Cardinali ... colorist: remastered hd version: new version (uncredited)

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Fred Gabourie ... (art direction)

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Denver Harmon ... electrical effects
Lex Neal ... assistant to director
Joseph M. Schenck ... presenter
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Plot Summary

A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwhelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowboy, being in his own way very successful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows.. Written by Stephan Eichenberg

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Taglines Come with Buster out into the vast open spaces where men are men and cows are their only lady friends. See him chaperone a thousand wild steers in a big City- and a thousand and one excruciatingly funny scenes! A METRO-GOLDWYN SPECIAL. (Print ad-Sunday Mail, ((Brisbane, Qld.)) 5 December 1926) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Ma vache et moi (France)
  • Der Cowboy (Germany)
  • El rey de los cowboys (Spain)
  • Irány nyugat! (Hungary)
  • Lähde länteen! (Finland)
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  • 69 min
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Trivia In order to achieve comic chemistry between human and animal, Keaton personally trained the bovine performer. During the shooting of Go West, production ground to a halt for two weeks when Brown Eyes went into heat. However, she gets a credit in the movie and even got a salary for her acting - $13 a week. See more »
Goofs When the girl summons Buster and the cowboy to tend to her splinter, Buster is standing to the cowboy's right. When they arrive, Buster is on his left. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1979). See more »
Quotes [last lines]
Ranch owner: My home and anything I have is yours for the asking.
[pause]
Friendless: [gestures to the back] I want her.
[Ranch owner first believes Friendless wants his daughter - then, realizes he is talking about his cow]
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