Pest from the West

Pest from the West

"Pest from the West" is a short comedy film made in 1939 starring Buster Keaton. In the film, Keaton (whose character is addressed only as "Sir") plays an international traveler who falls for a "senorita" and sets out to win her.

This was the first film made by Columbia Pictures starring Keaton and was a condensed remake of his English-made feature film "The Invader" (1935). Keaton's silent-era writer Clyde Bruckman collaborated on the screenplay and it was directed by comedy veteran Del Lord. The supporting cast features Columbia regulars Lorna Gray, Gino Corrado, Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison, Eddie Laughton, and Ned Glass with the voices of short-subject stars Charley Chase and Curly Howard heard on the soundtrack.

Much of "Pest from the West" was filmed on location at Balboa, California, USA (Keaton repeatedly falls off his boat, into Balboa Bay). The Mexican-village settings were adapted from sets used in Columbia's 1937 feature film "Lost Horizon".

"Pest from the West" was a huge hit in theaters, and earned rave reports from exhibitors. Keaton starred in nine more Columbia shorts, the last of which was "She's Oil Mine", released in 1941. Like "Pest from the West", this borrowed content from an older Keaton feature, "The Passionate Plumber".

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