Screen chemistry is an elusive enough thing between two human actors to begin with; developing a believable relationship between a man and an animal is virtually impossible, but that is just what silent film legend Buster Keaton creates with his costar, a cow named Blue Eyes, in Go West. While just the picture of the sad-faced clown dressed in western duds is funny, it is the emotional attachment he has with an orphan cow that gives the film heart. The scenes of a cattle stampede through the streets of downtown LA are priceless. The second film has Keaton a a foppish young man mistaken for a prizefighter. The boxing scenes are classics of physical comedy, as are the scenes of Keaton training to be the man his intended thinks he is
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