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Our Hospitality (1923)

Comedy | 74 minutes
3,61 171 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 74 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton

Stars: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge and Joe Keaton

IMDb score: 7,7 (13.028)

Releasedate: 19 November 1923

Our Hospitality plot

"A Comedy with a Heart of Gold"

New Yorker Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) travels south to claim an inheritance. There he ends up as a guest at the Canfield family and falls in love with the daughter of the house (Talmadge), oblivious to the lingering feud between the Canfields and his own family, the McKays. Fortunately, the proverbial hospitality of the Southerners keeps the Canfields from crushing Willie. As long as he stays as a guest...

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William McKay

Joseph Canfield

Virginia Canfield

Lee Canfield

The Engineer

Willie McKay - 1 Year Old

Husband Quarreling with Wife (uncredited)

John McKay (uncredited)

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Movsin

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Cinematically a very best Buster Keaton movie with Buster, as usual very peaceful, but this time on threatening territory.
Several successful, adventurous to funny scenes such as the train ride from 1830 with the movable tracks and especially the escape with many stunts, skillfully to masterfully portrayed.
And if the feud has to compete with love, then there is more than one surprise in the end.

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Bobbejaantje

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I got to know Buster Keaton through a screening of The General, with live piano improvisation, sometime in the nineties. A film that I found brilliantly funny and that has left an unforgettable impression. Now looking forward to the rest of his feature films.

This Our Hospitality has a great screenplay whose core, the feud between two families, is based on real events from the short history of the USA. The first three quarters of an hour we mainly see situational humor, which works effectively, before shifting up a gear in the last half hour with Keaton's characteristic acrobatic action comedy. Formidable how all this is perfectly performed by the master, and the scenes flow seamlessly into each other. Moreover, a film with high production value - historically situated costumes and props - and in between beautiful photography in the wild nature! Comedy with extras, for that you have to be with this Buster Keaton. So more than successful.

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Collins

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At the outset, text placards inform the viewer that there were times when blood feuds between families were common in the United States. The film is based on a notorious feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families. A feud that resulted in dozens of deaths between 1878 and 1891. In the film, the names Canfield and McKay are used and Keaton is part of the McKay clan.

Through all kinds of coincidences, Keaton ends up in the home of the Canfield family. If they find out from which family he comes, he must be killed. However, there is an old law that stands in the way of this. And that's the law of hospitality that says a guest should always be treated as a guest. Only when he leaves the guest house can he be shot. See the main theme of the film here.

The prologue of Our Hospitality is surprisingly humorless. Fortunately, that changes in the course of the film, but it must be said that the typical Buster Keaton slapstick is also largely absent in the sequel. There is less room for absurd situations. The drama plays a bigger role than I'm used to. Yet there are again wonderfully hilarious scenes. The highlight is a train journey that, due to all kinds of complications that occur along the way, is one extremely comical spectacle. There are also stunts and as usual they are performed by Keaton himself. A scene at a waterfall is both spectacular and funny.

Two memorable humorous scenes and some humorous moments here and there. It's a bit sparse. Our Hospitality combines humor with large pieces of romance and drama. Interesting and very watchable, but I just missed the slapstick.

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