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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1431

Out West

191825 minUnited States
ComedyWestern
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
20:44
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Roscoe Arbuckle · Public domain

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Synopsis

A drifter reaches a frontier town and becomes a bartender after disrupting a robbery. A violent outlaw returns to threaten a young woman, forcing the newcomer and the sheriff into an unlikely rescue.

Cast

DirectorsRoscoe Arbuckle

Historical context

Arbuckle's first Comique production on the West Coast parodies western conventions. Its comedy also includes racist caricatures of Indigenous people, reflecting rather than correcting the genre's contemporary stereotypes.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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