Our Hospitality

Released Nov 19, 1923

1h 9m

Comedy

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Sole heir Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) journeys by train from New York City to Kentucky to claim his fortune amid a decades-old feud with the Canfield family. En route, he meets and is smitten with young beauty Virginia (Natalie Talmadge), who invites him to dinner, but he realizes too late that she is the only daughter of patriarch Joseph Canfield (Joe Roberts). The rules of hospitality protect McKay from harm in their house, but he must outwit her brothers to resolve the feud.

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This satirical Hatfield–McCoy feud motion picture is called Our Hospitality. It's the story of Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) being in love with a Canfield (Natalie Talmadge) and her family is obviously upset by it. It is my hospitality to say that this movie is really fantastic. The film had beautiful cinematography. Buster Keaton's performance in this movie was fantastic as well. The visuals that were in this film (preferably when Keaton swings trapeze-like on a rope, catching Natalie Talmadge). Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality is a thrilling yet hilarious film that is quite honestly so unique.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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A terrific film for it's time it has an amazing comedy/action scene in the final act.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/04/22

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Ethan S

What a great picture. Excellent sight gags mixed with some hair-raising stunts. The sections featuring the very primitive train would be revisited in Keaton's equally excellent film The General a couple of years later.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/09/21

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William L

A simple but classic and tremendously influential Keaton comedy, notable for its integration of real narrative into the genre. Though painfully sluggish in its establishment of the narrative, Our Hospitality gradually finds a much more up-tempo pace and sustains it. The quality of the physical comedy is not as high as in later Keaton masterpieces like The General (there is definitely more of a reliance on earlier slapstick), but his deadpan expression still has the same winning qualities. You can't sleep on the quality of the miniatures and dioramas, either. Without Our Hospitality, there is no Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers, or the top later works of Chaplin. (4/5)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/25/21

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(18/1001) O filme baseia-se em diversas situações cômicas, como o funcionamento do trem da época, as tentativas de assassinato contra o personagem de Keaton, suas fugas. Há também certo teor dramático, sobretudo no prologo e ao final. As situações inusitadas são tratadas como naturalidade, de modo que o expectador ri espontaneamente do absurdo das situações. Muito do humor gira em torno de tombos e quedas, o que talvez já tenha perdido seu apelo. Sendo um filme de 1923, boa parte dos elementos de Our hospitality foi revisitada nos 100 anos desde seu lançamento: pode ser considerado um antecessor direto das comédias em que alguém tem que conhecer a família do seu par. Apesar dos ritmo lento e das piadas já conhecidas, consegue divertir. É relativamente curto, com uma trama bem construída e com algumas tomadas em plano aberto muito bonitas.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

07/30/20

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Isaiah Y

Being one of Buster Keaton's best films and probably the best film of 1923, Our Hospitality has much of what you would expect from a Keaton film including great stunts, acting, and directing by Keaton.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/23/20

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John G. Blystone

Director

Buster Keaton

Director

Buster Keaton

Willie McKay (21 years old)

Natalie Talmadge

Virginia Canfield

Buster Keaton Jr.

Willie McKay (1 year old)

Joe Keaton

The Engineer

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Adam Kempenaar

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That waterfall swing and rescue of Talmadge was surely one of the greatest, most thrilling action scenes in cinema history in 1923 and in 2022, it still is.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 4, 2022

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Richard Brody

New Yorker

Buster Keaton's ingenuity, acrobatics, and romanticism flourish equally in this antic twist on melodrama...

Sep 3, 2019

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TIME Magazine

The Keatons, four of them, combine to make this picture highly hilarious.

Jun 1, 2015

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

a much more assured and mature work, not to mention a film that is decidedly more cinematic in its visuals than Keaton's previous feature

Rated: 3.5/4

Mar 27, 2024

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Jules Caldeira

Film Inquiry

Our Hospitality stands on its own as a masterful comedy while also paving the way for his films to come. It is a must for comedy nerds and fans of old Hollywood alike.

Apr 1, 2023

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

...plays more like straight-up adventure than the ticklish comedy Keaton had mostly been known for.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 25, 2022

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Synopsis

Sole heir Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) journeys by train from New York City to Kentucky to claim his fortune amid a decades-old feud with the Canfield family. En route, he meets and is smitten with young beauty Virginia (Natalie Talmadge), who invites him to dinner, but he realizes too late that she is the only daughter of patriarch Joseph Canfield (Joe Roberts). The rules of hospitality protect McKay from harm in their house, but he must outwit her brothers to resolve the feud.

Director: John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
Producer: Joseph M. Schenck
Screenwriter: Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell
Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc., Kino Video
Production Co: Joseph M. Schenck Productions
Genre: Comedy
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 19, 1923, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 3, 2019
Runtime: 1h 9m

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