Go West (1940)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Edward Buzzell

Guionista:

Irving Brecher (original screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

6 diciembre 1940 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Musical | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

JUMP INTO YOUR BOOTS AND SADDLES...IT'S ROUND-UP TIME IN THE WILD AND WOOLY WEST!

Plot:

The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks.

Plot Keywords:

Deed | Gold | Train | Gold Prospector | Farce

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Ride 'Em Groucho

Reparto

Groucho Marx	...	S. Quentin Quale
Chico Marx	...	Joe Panello
Harpo Marx	...	'Rusty' Panello
John Carroll	...	Terry Turner
Diana Lewis	...	Eve Wilson
Walter Woolf King	...	Beecher
Robert Barrat	...	'Red' Baxter
June MacCloy	...	Lulubelle
George Lessey	...	Railroad President

También conocida como:

Marx Brothers Go West (UK)
Los hermanos Marx en el Oeste (Spain) [es]

Duración:

80 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved | Portugal:M/6 | Australia:G | Finland:S | Germany:6 | Sweden:Btl

Locaciones de Filmación:

Red Rock Canyon State Park - Highway 14, Cantil, California, USA

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

In Groucho's first solo appearance in a film (without his brothers) he puts on the old mustache and tails again and performs a number called "Go West, Young Man."

Errores:

Continuidad: When S. Quentin Quail falls down the saloon's stairs, he ends up flat out, with his head to the left. When the Panello brothers pick him up, he is lying upright and leaning towards the right.

Citas:

Joseph Panello: My father-a shot the Indians in eighteen forty-two
S. Quentin Quale: Oh, he should-a shot the stork-a, when the stork-a brought-a you.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

From The Land Of The Sky-Blue Water

Ride 'Em Groucho

Though Go West does have its moments, it's not quite in the same league as the brothers earlier MGM films, A Night At The Opera, and A Day At The Races, let alone their Paramount films. It's also not as good a western spoof as Laurel&Hardy's Way Out West or Abbott&Costello's Ride 'Em Cowboy.

When the Marx Brothers left Paramount, Zeppo did not make the trip, so it was MGM's practice to give the brothers a fourth man who happened to be a singer. Unlike Allan Jones in the two previous mentioned films, John Carroll does not get into the Marxian horseplay, nor did he get songs as good as Kenny Baker did in At the Circus and Tony Martin in The Big Store. He sings the rather forgettable Rding the Range with accompaniment by the brothers.

The plot of this film has to do with the Brothers trying to help Diana Lewis get the deed to her grandfather's property that they mistakenly turned over to villains Robert Barrat and Walter Woolf King so Harpo could get a 10 cent beer. The railroad wants to pay $50,000.00 for the right of way.

I got the feeling in watching Go West that a lot might have been left on the cutting room floor. Probably of some of the other characters so that it would solely concentrate on the Marxes. Bad idea because it sacrificed some plot development.

In a few years Diana Lewis would leave the screen to become the third and final Mrs. William Powell. She was a pretty woman, kind of like Jean Harlow without the platinum coiffure. It is said that's what attracted Powell to her.

The final sequence with the locomotive chase was funny, but also totally ripped off from Buster Keaton's The General. Not surprising since Keaton had a hand in the production. But a lot of the Marx kind of humor was missing. Nothing as good as their version of Il Trovatore or Chico fleecing Groucho at the racetrack.

Go West is minor league Marx. Bud and Lou and Stan and Ollie did a whole lot better out on the western plains.