Go West (1940)
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.
The movie Go West, released in 1940, features 12 songs from artists like June MacCloy and Groucho Marx in the saloon and Harpo Marx on a harp disguised as a loom, and the unidentified Indian Chief. What is your favorite song from Go West?
Songs from Go West
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
- For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
- Oh! Susanna (1848)
- Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight) (1844)
- As If I Didn't Know (1940) (credit only)
- Ridin' the Range (1940)
- You Can't Argue with Love (1940)
- June MacCloy and Groucho Marx in the saloon
- From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water (1909)
- Harpo Marx on a harp disguised as a loom, and the unidentified Indian Chief
- The Woodpecker Song (1939)
- Beautiful Dreamer(1862)
- She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain Comes
- My Bonnie (Lies Over the Ocean) (1881)