Films Directed by Edward Buzzell (Study Guide) - Song of the Thin Man, Go West, at the Circus, Child of Manhattan, Best Foot Forward, Honolulu (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Song of the Thin Man, Go West, at the Circus, Child of Manhattan, Best Foot Forward, Honolulu, Virtue, Ship Ahoy, Three Wise Fools, Paradise for Three, the Youngest Profession, Fast Company, the Big Timer, the Luckiest Girl in the World. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Go West was the 10th Marx Brothers comedy film, in which the three brothers, Groucho, Chico, and Harpo, head to the American West and attempt to unite a couple by ensuring that an evil railroad baron is thwarted. The scene is set in Dead Man's Gulch. Groucho is "S. Quentin Quale," Chico is "Joe Panello" and Harpo is "Rusty Panello." It was directed by Edward Buzzell and written by Irving Brecher, who receives the original screenplay credit, and others. In their obligatory first meeting scene the Marx Brothers perform the classic "That's a Ten-Spot ($10)" routine, in which Groucho is fleeced by his dimmer siblings. Some surprisingly risque lines for an MGM production make it through to the screen. For instance, Chico exclaims, "Ten dollars you want for that old beaver?" "--I'm not in business for love you know. I was in love once and I got the business," deadpans Groucho. As Harpo is picking his pocket, Groucho complains to the camera, "There's something corrupt going on around my pants...and I just can't seem to locate it." There is a confrontation between Harpo and "Red" Baxter (Robert Barratt), in classic Western style, as they stride together in the saloon. The patrons laugh when Harpo draws a whisk broom instead of a pistolbut he nearly takes Baxter's head off when the broom fires In the process of recovering a stolen deed, Groucho and Chico are plied with liquor by the statuesque, deep-voiced Lulubelle (June MacCloy) and her sisters. The ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=2987324