Out West is a 1918 American two-reel silent comedy film, a satire on contemporary Westerns, starring Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Al St. John. It was the first of Arbuckle’s “Comique” films to be filmed on the West Coast, the previous five having been filmed in and around New York City. The idea for the story came from Natalie Talmadge, who was later to become Keaton’s first wife.
Like many American films of the time, Out West was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of the scene of arrows in man’s back and their removal, man burning back with gas flames, and the shooting of the bartender.
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