Go West
Available on DVD:
Go West (1940)
- DVD, Region 1: Warner Home Video, www.marxbrothersdvd.com, 2004 / double-sided DVD, also contains 'The Big Store'
Special Features (side A):
Shorts: Pete Smith specialty 'Quicker 'n a Wink' / Traveltalks: 'Cavalcade of San Francisco' View Clip (Quicktime / ISDN or Broadband recommended)
Cartoon 'The Milky Way'
'Leo is on the Air' Radio Promo
Theatrical trailer
(for side B see 'The Big Store)
(only available as part of the "Marx Brothers Collection", see below)
Groucho stars, in this 1940 release, as S. Quentin Quale. The plot involves a fight between the boys and the villain for the deed to land needed by the railroad. The film opens with Groucho conning Harpo and Chico while being conned himself. The climactic train ride is brilliant. (J. Bradley Main)
JOE: All we want to know is where is the train?
QUALE: The train? It's out on the tracks. It seldom comes in here.
Cast:
| Groucho Marx | S. Quentin Quale | ||
| Harpo Marx | Rusty Panello | ||
| Chico Marx | Joseph Panello | ||
| John Carroll | Terry Turner | ||
| Diana Lewis | Eve Wilson | ||
| Robert Barrat | Red Baxter | ||
| Walter Woolf King | John Beecher | ||
| June MacCloy | Lulubelle | ||
| George Lessey | Railroad President | ||
| Mitchell Lewis | Halfbreed ("Indian Pete") | ||
| Tully Marshall | Dan Wilson | ||
| Edward Gargan | Railroad ticket clerk | ||
| Arthur Housman | Drunk in saloon | ||
| Harry Tyler | Telegraph clerk | ||
| Iris Adrian | Mary Lou, first saloon girl | ||
| Joan Woodbury | Melody, second saloon girl | ||
| Joe Yule | |||
| Clem Bevans | |||
| Lee Bowman |
| Director | Edward Buzzell | ||
| Written by | Irving Brecher | ||
| Cinematography | Leonard Smith | ||
| Art directors | Stan Rogers | ||
| Cedric Gibbons | |||
| Set decorator | Edwin B. Willis | ||
| Musical director | George E. Stoll | ||
| Orchestrator | George Bassman | ||
| Composer "Ridin' the Range" | Roger Edens | ||
| Composer "As If I Didn't Know", "You Can't Argue With Love" | Bronislau Kaper | ||
| Composer "From the Land of the Sky Blue Water" (Harp Solo) | Charles Wakefield Cadman | ||
| Lyricist | Gus Kahn | ||
| Editor | Blanche Sewell | ||
| Recording director | Douglas Shearer | ||
| Costume designers | Dolly Tree (women) | ||
| Gile Steele (men) | |||
| Assistant director | Sandy Roth | ||
| Producer | Jack Cummings | ||
| Production company / Distribution | Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer (Loew's Inc.) | ||
| Runtime | 80 min. | ||
| Release date | 06 Dec 1940 | ||
| New York opening | 20 Feb 1941 | ||
| Spanish title | Los hermanos Marx en el oeste | ||
| French title | Chercheurs d'or | ||
| Swedish title | En dag i Vilda Västern | ||
| Italian title | I Cowboys del deserto | ||
| Finnish title | Päivä lännessä |
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