Our Hospitality1923
Our Hospitality (1923)
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Cast
as William McKay
as Virginia Canfield
as Lem Doolittle
as Virginia Canfield
as Willie as a baby
as Joseph Canfield
as James Canfield
as Lee Canfield
as Clayton Canfield
as John McKay
as Aunt Mary
as John McKay
as Rev. Dorsey
as Mrs. McKay
as Sam Gardner
as Rev. Benjamin Dorsey
Critic Reviews for Our Hospitality
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The Keatons, four of them, combine to make this picture highly hilarious.
This is an unusual comedy picture, a novelty melange of dramatics, low comedy, laughs and thrills. Jean Havez has built up a comedy masterpiece about as serious a subject as a feud.
Buster's climactic rescue of his sweetheart from a waterfall is one of his most daringly acrobatic (and most celebrated) gags.
With this work, Keaton began to display a dramatic sense to complement his comic sensibility -- like The General, it is built with the integrity of a high-adventure story.
Our Hospitality combined a dead-serious dramatic plot, a feud in the 1830s modeled on the Hatfield-McCoy story, with a socially preposterous situation- without letting any daylight between the thrills and the laughs.
Three generations of Keatons are featured, from Joseph the elder to Buster's own son, while the period detail is at once comic and -- believe it -- totally accurate.
Audience Reviews for Our Hospitality
There are many amusing moments here (the bumpy train, the dangerous river ride, Keaton afraid of leaving his foes' house and be killed) and a good eye for props and elements (the dandy horse, the tunnel shaped like a train) that make this a funny, enjoyable comedy.
Super Reviewer
A man journeys to the South to claim his inheritance, but he falls in love with the daughter of a rival family along the way. One of the stunts during the third act is one of Keaton's most amazing physical achievements in a career of amazing physical achievements. Considering the time this film was made and the technology available, I am always in awe of Keaton's technical prowess no matter what film I'm watching. The story is a satire of Southern codes of honor, one of the first times I've seen Keaton criticizing Southern mores, and the result produces some madcap ridiculousness. Overall, Our Hospitality is funny, entertaining, and contains some vintage Keaton, a master of the silent medium.
Super Reviewer
Keaton gets in the middle of a family feud, hilarity ensues.
Super Reviewer
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