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Go West

1940, Movie, NR, 79 mins

Go West: Review

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The opening of GO WEST finds slick-talking Groucho being outwitted by Chico and Harpo in a very funny sequence, but much of the rest of the film simply doesn't live up to its promise. The plot has something to do with a land deed, but it's really an excuse for the Marxes to clown around. At the studio's insistence, a thoroughly boring romantic sub-plot was grafted onto the story. Chico gets a piano solo, and Harpo turns an Indian loom into his namesake instrument. Groucho sings, looking completely bored with the whole process. The brothers best work was clearly behind them by 1940, though they continued making films. Studio indifference and poor writing that clearly misunderstood the Marx brand of humor is evident. An interesting sidenote: Groucho's character was named after a crude inside Hollywood joke about the young girls at an actor's disposal: San Quentin Quail. This film was originally to have been scored by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalamar, who scripted the more successful DUCK SOUP (1933) and HORSE FEATHERS (1932), and it seems a shame that it wasn't. Songs include "Ridin' the Range" (Gus Kahn, Roger Edens), "As If I Didn't Know," "You Can't Argue with Love" (Kahn, Bronislau Kaper), "Land of the Sky Blue Water" (Charles Wakefield Cadman), "Beautiful Dreamer," and "Oh, Susanna" (Stephen Foster). leave a comment
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