521 - Go West, United States, 1940. Dir. Edward Buzzell.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

521 - Go West, United States, 1940.  Dir. Edward Buzzell.

Groucho meets his match.

S. Quentin Quale, in this case.  He knows how to play the con.  He shows up at the train station to Go West.  (That is, after all, all he has to say at the ticket counter.  Give me a ticket to Go West.)

The line is long.  He stands at the back of the line and calls out, "Tickets for the West at this window!"

Everybody abandons the line.  Goes to where he called them from the back of the line.  He goes to the front of the line.  He asks for a ticket.

"That'll be $70, please."

He gives him $60.  Tells him not to count it.  He counts it.  "There's only $60 here."

"I told you not to count it."

S. Quentin Quale plays a game with the ticket man, but the ticket man is too smart for him.  Quale fails to get his ticket.

Enter Joe and Rusty Panello.  AKA, Chico and Harpo.

This is where Groucho meets his match.

He hustles them for money and puts it in his pocket.  He gives back small change. 
But Harpo has fishing line attached to it and pulls it out of Groucho's pocket.  Taking back his money while keeping the change.

They end up with all of Quale's money.

They all end up out West anyway.

The Pinellos get the deed to some land.  It is worthless.  Except that the railroad is about to come through.  Going through the land.  Making the holders of the deed rich.

Mayhem ensues.

Along with singing and dancing.  And Chico's playing of the piano, and Harpo's playing of the harp.  A homemade one.  Made from an Indian loom.

There is a showdown on a train.

As the clock ticks.

And a deadline looms.

The Marx Brothers might come to the rescue.

If they do not destroy everything first.