Go West

Resource Information

The work Go West represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Go West

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; produced by Jack Cummings ; original screen play by Irving Brecher ; directed by Edward Buzzell. The big store / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; produced by Louis K. Sidney ; screenplay by Sid Kuller, Hal Fimberg and Ray Golden ; original story by Nat Perrin ; directed by Charles Riesner

Title variation

• Big store
• Marx Brothers collection

Contributor

• Stoll, Georgie, 1905-1985,
• Marx Brothers
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Barrat, Robert, 1889-1970,
• Brecher, Irving, 1914-2008,
• Buzzell, Edward, 1895-1985,
• Carroll, John, 1906-1979,
• Cummings, Jack, 1900-1989,
• Dumbrille, Douglass, 1890-1974,
• Dumont, Margaret, 1882-1965,
• Fimberg, Hal,
• Golden, Ray,
• Grey, Virginia, 1917-2004,
• King, Walter, 1899-1984,
• Kuller, Sid, 1910-1993,
• Lewis, Diana, 1919-1997,
• Martin, Tony, 1913-2012,
• Marx, Chico, 1887-1961,
• Marx, Groucho, 1890-1977,
• Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964,
• Riesner, Charles, 1887-1962,
• Sidney, Louis K.,

Actor

• Grey, Virginia, 1917-2004,
• King, Walter, 1899-1984,
• Carroll, John, 1906-1979,
• Lewis, Diana, 1919-1997,
• Martin, Tony, 1913-2012,
• Marx, Chico, 1887-1961,
• Marx, Groucho, 1890-1977,
• Dumbrille, Douglass, 1890-1974,
• Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964,
• Barrat, Robert, 1889-1970,
• Dumont, Margaret, 1882-1965,

Composer

• Stoll, Georgie, 1905-1985,

Director

• Riesner, Charles, 1887-1962,
• Buzzell, Edward, 1895-1985,

Producer

• Sidney, Louis K.,
• Cummings, Jack, 1900-1989,

Screenwriter

• Brecher, Irving, 1914-2008,
• Fimberg, Hal,
• Kuller, Sid, 1910-1993,
• Golden, Ray,

Subject

• Feature films
• Comedy films
• Video recordings

Genre

• Feature films
• Video recordings
• Comedy films

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• fre
• eng

Summary

In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging

Cataloging source

MDK

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Go West: Director of photography, Leonard Smith ; film editor, Blanche Sewell ; musical director, George Stoll. The big store: Director of photography, Charles Lawton ; film editor, Conrad A. Nervig ; musical director, George Stoll

Language note

Go west: In English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned. Big store: In English or French with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Go West: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Walter Woolf King, Robert Barrat. The big store: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont, Douglass Dumbrille

Runtime

163

Technique

live action