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Our Hospitality

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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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Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting 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 Full Review Richard Brody The New Yorker Buster Keaton's ingenuity, acrobatics, and romanticism flourish equally in this antic twist on melodrama... Sep 3, 2019 Full Review TIME Magazine The Keatons, four of them, combine to make this picture highly hilarious. Jun 1, 2015 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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David F A great, classic, silent comedy. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/16/25 Full Review Leaburn O Keaton at his best. The amazing thing is that slapstick is centred on one premise alone but it manages to faultlessly carry the film for an hour or so without being boring. The capers remain funny over 100 years later. Watched on Amazon Prime. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/25 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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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
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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