Marx Bros.: Go West/The Big Store
by Charles Reisner, Edward Buzzell
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Actor: Chico Marx, Diana Lewis, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, John CarrollDirector: Charles Reisner, Edward Buzzell
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Buster Keaton
Writer: Hal Fimberg
Writer: Irving Brecher
Writer: Nat Perrin
Writer: Ray Golden
Writer: Sid Kuller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 163 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Marx Bros.: Go West/The Big Store
Movie Review: Get It For 'Go West'
Summary: 3 Stars
Despite not having a reputation as one of the better Marx Brothers films, I still found "Go West" to be a typical MB movie with crazy scenes and a few songs. No, it may not have been as funny as their better-known films of the 1930s, but I didn't think it much below them, either.
It's not as totally outrageous as the boys' earlier stuff but it also has fewer stupid stuff, too. Make no mistake: it has its share of genuinely funny material, both in dialog and in sight gags. The finale is a wild chase scene on a train that is very, very entertaining. That holds true for a wild stagecoach ride earlier in the picture. Once again, Chico comes up with the funniest lines.
THE BIG STORE - The final 15 minutes "saved this film," as most of it is not up to MB standards. I guess by the 1940s, the boys were in a decline, for various reasons. The jokes in here - and the songs - are too dated and, frankly, appealing. However, I personally enjoyed the hectic last 15 minutes with a chase through a department store. That was classic slapstick material and it still works.
OVERALL - For $13.49 (current price), it's a good deal, even if only one of the movies is good.
Summary of Marx Bros.: Go West/The Big Store
Groucho, Chico, Harpo - all certifiably wacko in a double dip of comedies. The Marxmen Go West (Side A) to where the sun always shines, the fun never sets and where they outwit a land grabber. Highlights include the $1 scam, the stagecoach ride, Chico and Harpo bellying up to the bar and the train-chase finale. What fools these mortals be and what fuels they need. The boys chop up passenger cars to get wood to stoke the locomotive. They go east in The Big Store (Side B), becoming detectives-cum-bodyguards for a department store. Crime is afoot in the store or, if in the Fabrics Department, by the yard. Still, our sleuths don't have a clue except in laughing matters. Chico and Harpo share a piano keyboard, beds disappear into walls, roller skates provide in-store mobility and Groucho warbles Sing While You Sell. Sold!Comedy DVD Video
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