Go West is a silent movie starring Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

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Keaton portrays Friendless, who travels west to try to make his fortune. Once there, he tries his hand at bronco-busting, cattle wrangling, and dairy farming, eventually forming a bond with a cow named "Brown Eyes." Eventually he finds himself leading a herd of cattle through Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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Seventy years after the release of the film guitarist Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...

 recorded a soundtrack accompaniment Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton

Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton

Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton is the sixth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 1995 and features performances by Frisell, Kermit Driscoll and Joey Baron...

(1995). The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra

The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra

The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra is an ensemble of composers and musicians based in St. Louis, Missouri. The ensemble composes and performs original scores to accompany films of the Silent Era, and composes and records soundtrack music for contemporary films.- Origins and History:The...

 premiered its new score for the film in 2007.

Cast

• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
   - Friendless
• Howard Truesdale - Ranch owner
• Kathleen Myers - Ranch owner's daughter
• Ray Thompson - Ranch foreman
• Brown Eyes - The Cow 'Brown Eyes'
• Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Woman in department store (uncredited)
• Joe Keaton
  Joe Keaton
  Joe Keaton was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actor. He was the father of actor Buster Keaton.-Information:...
  
   - Man in Barber Shop (uncredited)
• Gus Leonard
  Gus Leonard
  Gus Leonard was a French-born American film actor. He appeared in 150 films between 1916 and 1937.Modern audiences will recognize Leonard from his appearances in the Our Gang comedies Mush and Milk, Teacher's Beau and The Lucky Corner.Leonard died in Los Angeles, California on March 27,...
  
   - General store owner (uncredited)
• Babe London
  Babe London
  Babe London was an American actress and comedian, most remembered for her onetime-only partnership with Oliver Hardy, in the 1931's Laurel and Hardy's two-reeler Our Wife.-Career:...
  
   - Woman in department store (uncredited)

See also

• List of American films of 1925
• Buster Keaton filmography
  Buster Keaton filmography
  - Starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton :- Starring Buster Keaton :- Starring Buster Keaton, for Educational Pictures :- Starring Buster Keaton, for Columbia Pictures :- Starring Buster Keaton, for independent producers :...
  
  
• Fatty Arbuckle filmography
  Fatty Arbuckle filmography
  These are the films of Roscoe Arbuckle. Films marked with a diamond were directed by and featured Arbuckle. He used the name William Goodrich on the films he directed from 1924 onwards.----...