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A very funny Buster Keaton film. Keaton is penniless and jobless in Indiana so he decides to sell his possessions for $1.64 and hitch a train ride to New York. But he fails to find his fortune there either, so he goes out West. He is an extremely useless cowboy, but he manages to befriend a cow, Brown Eyes, and when an angry bull is charging Keaton, Brown Eyes intervenes and apparently persuades the bull to leave him alone. Later Keaton sees that a bull is "molesting" Brown Eyes, so to protect his friend, Keaton rigs up some antlers on her to make her look like a bull.
Soon it is time for the cattle to be sent to the slaughterhouse; only now does Keaton realise that Brown Eyes is destined for slaughter, and when he can't affrord to buy her from the rancher, he goes with her in the train. But there is a hold-up which ends with the train being started away without the driver; it runs on driverless, eventually into the stock yard at Los Angeles, and Keaton manages to stop the train just in time. Alone with the cattle he releases them and there is an amazing sequence with a huge herd of cattle roaming the streets -- and into the shops -- of the city.
Amid the general mayhem, a fat lady and her friend struggle to get quickly into a lift in a depratment store. The lady is played by Roscoe Arbuckle; it is very brief and indistinct.
This is a supreme example of Keaton's creative comedy, highly recommended. Don't confuse it with the later Marx Brothers film of the same title.
HF July 2005
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