Review of Out West

Out West (1918)
4/10
Weak Western Parody
24 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers
It's somewhat surprising that Arbuckle and Keaton didn't make more parodies - their style of humour is well suited to it - although we only see snippets of that potential in this two reeler. Fatty, booted off a train, ends up in a small desert town amidst high cliffs. Various bad guys attempt to take the town saloon by gunfight, but Fatty and sidekick Buster are the unlikely heroes turning them away. The early train sequence, including Fatty being chased atop the moving train, is a highlight, and worth watching for those 4 minutes alone, but after that it is forgettable. While somewhat humorous to see a tough villain thwarted by tickling, and a gunfight where no one is harmed by bullet wounds, it is mostly pretty weak.
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