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Go West, Three-Sheet

A lanky cowboy in oversized chaps.

What

A 1925 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer three-sheet for Go West, an American silent Western comedy, drawn by John Held, Jr.

Why

Buster Keaton directed it and played the lead, and in France it was called Ma vache et moi.

Notice

Held draws the hero as a flat cutout in huge chaps and spurs, beside the credit "Presented by JOSEPH M. SCHENCK".

“A small man out West”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
Go West (1925), dir. Buster Keaton
Country / studio
United States · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Designer
John Held, Jr.
Format
Three-sheet
Poster published
U.S. three-sheet, colour lithograph, 1925
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.

The same film, another screen

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