Keaton: Go West

Keaton: Go West

classified U S

part of Slapstick Festival 2025

Film

Sun 16 Feb 09:30

Director
Buster Keaton
Details
68 mins, & Subtitled, 1925

Buster Keaton is both touching and funny in this spoof cowboy film as Friendless, a hapless soul who decides to try his hand at cattle ranching after failing to find a big city job.

Spurned by the ranch owner’s daughter (Kathleen Myers), Friendless forms a loyal bond with a young cow, Brown Eyes, and soon finds himself stowing away on a cattle train, battling an ambush and wrangling hundreds of stampeding cattle through downtown Los Angeles in a hilarious crescendo.

Look out for cameos from Buster’s dad Joe, Fatty Arbuckle, and silent comedy stalwart Babe London - and you can’t miss Brown Eyes, Buster’s bovine leading lady who he personally hand-picked and trained for the film (while also writing and directing!).

With live accompaniment from members of the European Silent Screen Virtuosi led by Günter A. Buchwald.


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