Go West Page #4

Synopsis: Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
Director(s): Edward Buzzell
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
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PASSED
Year:
1940
80 min
839 Views


That's no good. That's for horses.

I know you're thirsty. I'm thirsty, too.

Come on, we go into the saloon.

I get you a drink.

Rusty, I no like the West.

All the people do is kill each other.

I'd like the West better

if it was in the East.

Let's get out of here.

Letter. Pony express for you.

Game is over, boys.

Now, look here, Pete...

a whole week has gone by

and you still ain't brought Wilson in.

Get some more men.

Get some fresh horses.

I don't care how you do it,

but you find that desert rat.

Take it away.

Thirsty? My throat is dry,

just like the desert.

Yours, too?

Another, Joe.

Okay. There it is, Pete.

Hey, you!

What's the matter with you?

Put that down!

- What's going on here?

- Couple of tinhorns from the East.

Told them no money, no beer.

Then I turn my back, and he steals a glass.

- Why, you...

- He no steal it, mister.

We don't want no trouble. I'll pay.

You don't look as if

you had a dime between you.

No, but I give you an IOU.

Did you hear that, boy? An I owe me.

Sure, we're honest. We always pay.

Here, I owe you 10 cents. Joseph Panello.

That's rich and rare.

A business transaction, Joe.

Put it in the cash register

before somebody steals it.

Come on, you financiers, beat it.

Get out of here.

- You know where Dan Wilson's house is?

- Dan Wilson? Sure.

You just go half a mile up the road.

You can't miss it.

Say, you can do me a favor.

I got a telegram for Dan Wilson.

You can deliver it and save me the trip.

Sure, we'll deliver the telegram.

Maybe it's good news.

- There you are, and thanks very much.

- That's all right.

Dan Wilson. That means we don't open it.

You promise?

Right.

All right. We open it but we don't read it.

I no think I can trust you.

And I know you can't trust me.

So I tell you what we do.

I'll read it, but we don't listen.

Come on, put the fingers up.

Rusty, I cheated.

I listened.

You, too.

Mr. Beecher, we're here to meet you!

We're supposed to meet you!

Are you looking for John Beecher?

Sure, we've come to see him about

selling Dead Man's Gulch to the Railroad.

That's fine.

I'm John Beecher.

We don't recognize you, do we, Rusty?

Naturally you don't recognize me.

We've never met.

Then how do I know it's you?

If I don't know

what Mr. Beecher looks like...

the only way I can tell it's him

is if he wears a white carnation.

Well, the very idea!

I don't know anything about...

Now, look here, you two...

Old Mr. Beecher, we look all over for you.

- We're so glad to see you.

- Yes, I'm glad that's settled.

Now, which one of you gentlemen

is Mr. Wilson?

None of us.

We got a name:
Panello.

But we own the land.

- You have the deed with you?

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Irving Brecher

Irving S. Brecher (January 17, 1914 – November 17, 2008) was a screenwriter who wrote for the Marx Brothers among many others; he was the only writer to get sole credit on a Marx Brothers film, penning the screenplays for At the Circus (1939) and Go West (1940). He was also one of the numerous uncredited writers on the screenplay of The Wizard of Oz (1939). Some of his other screenplays were Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), Ziegfeld Follies (1946) and Bye Bye Birdie (1963). more…

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