Go West [DVD video] ; The big store

In Go West, it's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The big store, the brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.

General Note:

DVD release of the 1940 (Go West) and 1941 (The big store) motion pictures.

"Classic double feature"--Container.

Special features include: Quicker 'n a wink (Pete Smith specialty vintage short), Cavalcade of San Francisco (Fitzpatrick traveltalk vintage short), The Milky Way (cartoon), Leo is on the air (radio promo), Flicker memories (vintage short), Officer Pooch (vintage cartoon), Where there's music (audio musical outtake), theatrical trailers.

Performers:

Go West: The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx), John Carroll, Diana Lewis.

The big store: The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx), Tony Martin, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont, Douglass Dumbrille.

Contents:

side A. Go West / produced by Jack Cummings ; original screen play by Irving Brecher ; directed by Edward Buzzell (80 min.) -- side B. The big store / produced by Louis K. Sidney ; screen play by Sid Kuller, Hal Fimberg and Ray Golden ; directed by Charles Riesner (83 min.).

Technical Details:

DVD; Dolby digital mono.

Subject Term:

Department stores -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

West (U.S.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Comedy films.

Western films.

Feature films.

Language:

English