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Go West

Year:

1940

Duration:

80 min

Genres:

Comedy | Musical | Western

IMDB rate:

6.9

Director:

Edward Buzzell

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1940-12-06

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

Cast

Actor

Character

Groucho Marx

Go West

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

Iris Adrian

Mary Lou (uncredited)

Barbara Bedford

Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited)

Clem Bevans

Railroad Official (uncredited)

Lee Bowman

(uncredited)

Frederick Burton

Johnson (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)

James Dime

Extra as Barfly (uncredited)

Al Duvall

The Porter (uncredited)

Edward Gargan

Railroad Ticket Seller (uncredited)

Mary Gordon

Extra as Train Passenger (uncredited)

Lew Harvey

Card Player (uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Man at Saloon Door (uncredited)

Arthur Housman

Drunk in Saloon (uncredited)

Mitchell Lewis

Indian Pete - Halfbreed (uncredited)

Jack Low

Extra as Barfly (uncredited)

Slim Lucas

Stage Coach Driver (uncredited)

Tully Marshall

Dan Wilson (uncredited)

Bob Priester

Specialty Number (uncredited)

Baby Quintanilla

Baby on Stagecoach

Henry Sylvester

Conductor (uncredited)

Harry Tyler

Telegrapher (uncredited)

Fred Warren

Pianist at Crystal Palace Saloon (uncredited)

Billy Wayne

Train Fireman (uncredited)

Harry Wilson

Extra as Barfly / Train Passenger (uncredited)

Joan Woodbury

Melody (uncredited)

Joe Yule

Joe - Bartender (uncredited)

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Trivia

The film opens with Horace Greely's famous quotation: "Go West, Young Man, go west." (Actually spoken by John Soulé; Greeley spent the rest of his life disavowing it.)

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Winston Churchill was informed of Rudolf Hess's capture in Scotland just before he was about to see a private screening of Go West. Spurning a more detailed briefing, Churchill famously commented "Well, Hess or no Hess, I'm off to see the Marx Brothers"

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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."

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Goofs

When Harpo Marx is told to get water to put out the train's engine, he is seen filling up a bucket from a small tank marked "water" and partially covered by luggage. This tank, however, was part of the baggage car that had been uncoupled from the train in an earlier scene.

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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.

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The train that the Marx brothers are driving is a locomotive of a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement. However, when the train runs off the track, the locomotive is portrayed by a 2 truck Climax type engine of a 0-4-4-0 arrangement. Then, the train reverts to the 2-8-0 once it returns to the tracks.

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Quotes

S. Quentin Quale: You know there's a drunk sitting at the first table who looks exactly like you? And one who looks exactly like me. Dull, isn't it?

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S. Quentin Quale: You love your brother, don't you?

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S. Quentin Quale: Madam why is that baby constantly crying?

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