Go West

A young man with no luck holding down a job in the city drifts west and ends up working as a cowboy on a ranch. Unsuited to the work and lonely, he befriends a cow, and when she is marked for the slaughterhouse he sets out to save her. His attempt to prove himself and win over the rancher's daughter puts him in the path of a gang of bandits.

Buster Keaton directs and stars as the drifter, known only as Friendless, with Howard Truesdale as the ranch owner, Kathleen Myers as his daughter and Ray Thompson as the foreman. Keaton wrote the screenplay with Raymond Cannon and produced alongside Joseph M. Schenck. The film runs 83 minutes and blends comedy with the western genre. It is the seventh of the thirteen features Keaton directed, arriving between Seven Chances in 1925 and The General in 1926.

Released in November 1925, Go West draws moderate scores from viewers: 7.1 out of 10 on IMDb from around 5,600 votes, and 6.9 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller base of roughly 160 votes.