Battling Butler / Go West (Ultimate 2-Disc Edition) [Blu-ray] Reviews

This Kino Blu-ray release of Go West and Battling Butler presents two stylistically varied mid-tier Buster Keaton films from his feature filmmaking heyday.  Fortunately for the viewer, mid-tier Buster Keaton circa 1925-1926 equates to an extremely entertaining experience by regular filmmaker standards.  The films are presented in 1080p high definition video, with subtle improvements over the previous Kino DVD release of Go West due primarily to the high definition upgrade, and much more substantial improvements over the previous Kino DVD release of Battling Butler, which appears to have been transfered from a substantially improved film source element.  Extras include a number of still galleries, an hour long archival audio recording of Keaton pitching an episode of Wagon Train, and a vintage Hal Roach studio short featuring trained monkeys enacting a western melodrama.

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