Go West

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 clearl...