History Film / GoWest1940

** When Quale and the Panello Brothers sneak in through the second story of the Crystal Palace, Joseph tries to reassure Quale by saying they would telephone for help. Quale tells him that they can't because the telephone hasn't been invented yet.

''Go West'' is a 1940 [[TheWestern Western]]-{{Comedy}} that starred the four Creator/MarxBrothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo.

Not to be confused with the [[Film/GoWest 1925 Buster Keaton film of the same name]].

[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one that]] was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but they didn't have a tape measure.

-> ''In 1851, Horace Greeley uttered a phrase that did much to change the history of these United States. He said: "GO WEST, YOUNG MAN, GO WEST."''\\
''This story of three men who made Horace Greeley sorry he said it.''
-->-- '''FOREWARD'''

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Rusty manages to rig a Native American weaving loom into a makeshift harp, this being the set-up for Harpo's obligatory harp-solo scene.

** When Quale and the Panello Brothers sneak in through the second story of the Crystal Palace, Joseph tries to reassure Quale by saying they would telephone for help. Quache tells him that they can't because the telephone hasn't been invented yet.
** When Quale tries selling the same neckalce from earlier to a Native woman, she says she would prefer a Cadillac Sedan.

** When Quache tries selling a woman a worthless piece of jewelry by claiming how it belonged to the Czarina, she asks him how he got it. He answers that he knows Rasputin personally.
** When Quache and the Panello Brothers sneak in through the second story of the Crystal Palace, Joseph tries to reassure Quache by saying they would telephone for help. Quache tells him that they can't because the telephone hasn't been invented yet.

It's 1851. Con-men S. Quentin Quale and the Panello Brothers go west to make their fortunes. The Panello Brothers become the owners of Dead Man's Gulch as collateral for a loan, unaware that Terry Turner has plans to sell it to provide for the owner's grandfather. Soon the deed becomes the most prized object for the Gulch's property value and everyone intends on taking it for themselves, whether it's through clever wordplay or at the end of a guns' barrel.

** Groucho's character S. Quentin Quale is introduced ditching a group carrying his luggage, tricking a line of people buying train-tickets into clearing by claiming that the line starts on the other side of the room and tries {{gaslight}}ing the box-office attendant into giving him a 70$ ticket for 60$.

** Groucho's character S. Quentin Quale is introduced ditching a group of who he had carrying his luggage, tricking a line of people buying train-tickets into clearing by claiming that the line starts on the other side of the room and tries gaslighting the box-office attendant into giving him a 70$ ticket for 60$.

* GoldFever: The whole reason why everyone is heading west is to take advantage of the gold rush. That said, it's a plot of land with no gold on it that everyone's crazy about, mainly because a railroad company plans on building atop it for 500$.

It's 1851. Con-men S. Quentin Quale and the Panello Brothers go west for to make their fortunes. The Panello Brothers become the owners of Dead Man's Gulch as collateral for a loan, unaware that Terry Turner has plans to sell it to provide for the owner's grandfather. Soon the deed becomes the most prized object for the Gulch's property value and everyone intends on taking it for themselves, whether it's through clever wordplay or at the end of a guns' barrel.

* GoldFever: The whole reason why everyone is heading west is to take advantage of the gold rush.

''Go West'' is a 1940 [[TheWestern Western]]-comedy that starred the four Creator/MarxBrothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo.

''Go West'' is a 1940 Western-comedy that starred the four Creator/MarxBrothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo.