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Go West

(Buster Keaton, 1925)

Introduced by Tim Lanza, Vice President and Archivist, the Cohen Film Collection

Family Programming | New Restoration

Go West

In Go West, silent comedy legend Buster Keaton plays a drifter named Friendless, who lands a job at a cattle ranch hoping to make his fortune. Once there, he becomes inseparable from a darling cow named Brown Eyes, who follows him wherever he goes with a series of comic mishaps close behind. When the ranch owner decides to sell his entire herd—including Brown Eyes—to the stockyard, the drifter springs into action to save his only friend. (82 mins., 4K DCP)

More about the expert

Tim Lanza has overseen the Cohen Film Collection since 1992 and restorations of such films as Buster Keaton’s The General (1926), James Whale’s The Old Dark House (1932), David Miller’s Sudden Fear (1952), and Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (1991). This is his sixth appearance at Cinema Revival.

Go West

Go West, image courtesy of Cohen Film Collection

Go West

Go West, image courtesy of Cohen Film Collection

Go West

Go West, image courtesy of Cohen Film Collection

4K restoration by the Cohen Film Collection and Cineteca di Bologna at the L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.

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