Product Details

• Actors: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Alice Brady, Elizabeth Patterson
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302798515
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,476 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars WINNER, Most Enigmatic Title, August 3, 2001

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Linda McDonnell "TutorGal" (Brooklyn, U.S.A) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go West Young Man [VHS] (VHS Tape)

That's because this movie has absolutely nothing to do with the west--it's set in PA. Except that there's some talk that big movie actress Mae West will take local rube grease monkey Randolph Scott back to Hollywood with her. Or--duh--maybe it's a play on her last name? Down to basics: Mae is this big movie star whose contract stipulates that she cannot marry for the next five yearrs. Her public relations man Warren William is there to make the contract stick, and so promptly dispatches any guy he thinks Mae will look twice at. Car trouble lands the two in a Pennsylvanian hick town filled with her hayseed fans, further complications when Mae takes a shine to local yokel Randy Scott. That's about it. Takes too long to get to the much better and rather satisfying wrap-up. Be that as it mae, Ms. West is always fun to watch with all her purring and undulations. Warren William is the comic relief this time round (oh, he's so much better as a scoundrel, as in "Skyscraper Souls" or "Employees' Entrance"--what a waste of talent); here he shows a little of that whatever it was that was so disturbing in great quantity in the gadawful "Satan Met a Lady". "Go West, Young Man" was okay for one viewing, but I don't advise a revisitation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Tamed West, May 9, 2009

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Scott T. Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go West Young Man [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Mae West was so displeased with this bland adaptation of the Broadway hit "Personal Appearance" that she mentioned it only once in her autobiography. Thanks to Hays Office censorship, "Go West, Young Man" (1936) lacked the comic spark of Mae's earlier films, with few classic one-liners and a tamed West stuck in rural Pennsylvania. Co-star Randolph Scott and director Henry Hathaway fared better in their Zane Grey collaborations. The weakest of Mae's Paramount vehicles.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tamed, July 21, 2000

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"laddie5" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Go West Young Man [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After the failure of "Klondike Annie," Mae West tried something different: an adaptation of someone else's material. "Personal Appearance" was a stage play about a big star stuck in a small town, and in the early scenes of the film, she is fairly funny as she plays the star as vain, ignorant, and self-obsessed. This brief bit of satire is promising, but the film soon becomes the usual West vehicle, with various slickers and studs after the irresistable heroine. This is the rare West film with a strong supporting cast, and it passes fairly pleasantly, but the censors were at their strongest -- and Mae without double entendres isn't really Mae.