Pest From The West (1939) – Buster Keaton’s first short for Columbia, as as millionaire looking for love in Mexico. Who keeps falling into the water, annoying the people, winning a duel, but then …
Pest From The West (1939) starring Buster Keaton, Lorna Gray
Trivia
- Buster Keaton’s first two-reeler for Columbia Pictures.
Cast
- Buster Keaton (Cops; The General) … Sir. Millionaire, seeing the world on his yacht. He falls in love with Conchita at first sight, and keeps trying to woo her — unsuccessfully.
- Lorna Gray (You Nazty Spy!; Captain America serial) … Conchita. The lovely señorita, using Buster to get rid of her two suitors.
- Gino Corrado (Micro-Phonies) … Martino. Conchita’s ‘fiancee’ that she doesn’t want to marry.
- Richard Fiske (Before I Hang) … Ferdinand the Bullfighter. Conceit’s boyfriend, who comes up with the plan to have Martino murder someone else for being her boyfriend, so Martino’s arrested, leaving Ferdinand with Conchita. And she agrees!
Additional cast
- Bobby Barber (Colgate Comedy Hour – Bolamania) … Musician(uncredited). And Buster “borrows” a guitar from one of them to serenade Conchita.
- James Craig (Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise) … Pedro(uncredited)
- Charles Dorety (The Hoose-Gow) … Musician(uncredited)
- Ned Glass (Charade) … Deck Hand(uncredited). The two deck hands keep mistakenly thinking that Buster’s running to escape, so they cast off — and he keeps falling in the water!
- Bud Jamison (The Dentist; A Pain in the Pullman) … Neighbor Taking Siesta(uncredited). Who drops a series of objects on Buster as he’s serenading Conchita. And in the conclusion …
- Eddie Laughton (Before I Hang) … Deck Hand(uncredited)
- Forbes Murray (A Chump at Oxford) … Butler(uncredited)
- Robert Sterling (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) … Cigarette Customer at Adjacent Table(uncredited)
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