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Movie Info

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.

Genre:

comedy
Director:

John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
Writer:

Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell
Release Date (Theaters):

Nov 19, 1923 wide
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 3, 2019
Runtime:

1h 9m
Production Co:

Joseph M. Schenck Productions

Cast & Crew

Buster Keaton
Willie McKay (21 years old)

Natalie Talmadge
Virginia Canfield

Buster Keaton Jr.
Willie McKay (1 year old)

Joe Keaton
The Engineer

Kitty Bradbury
Aunt Mary

Joe Roberts
Joseph Canfield

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Critic Reviews for Our Hospitality

All Critics (27) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (1)

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

September 3, 2019 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
The Keatons, four of them, combine to make this picture highly hilarious.

June 1, 2015 | Full Review…

TIME Magazine
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.

March 26, 2009 | Full Review…

Variety Staff
Variety
Buster's climactic rescue of his sweetheart from a waterfall is one of his most daringly acrobatic (and most celebrated) gags.

January 26, 2006 | Full Review…

Tony Rayns
Time Out
Keaton's first feature-length comedy is one of his best, a comic gem set against a backdrop of a Hatfield-McCoy style family feud.

July 9, 2004 | Rating: A | Full Review…

Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide
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.

January 1, 2000 | Full Review…

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
One of the silent comedian's most popular pictures.

October 27, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
With Keaton's unique charm and a beautifully rendered sense of time and place, it becomes a showcase for one of cinema's great comic filmmakers.

October 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row
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.

November 5, 2018 | Full Review…

Jana Prikryl
The New York Review of Books
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.

June 1, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Tom Hutchinson
Radio Times
Buster Keaton's second feature as an independent is a gem.

September 2, 2007 | Rating: A | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Consistently hilarious, highly watchable Keaton classic.

October 23, 2006 | Rating: 5/5

Steve Crum
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

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Audience Reviews for Our Hospitality

Jul 29, 2014

While the film's indicates are slightly obvious, Buster Keaton's second feature is still a favourite of mine amongst the collection and dare I say, almost contests the ingenuity of Sherlock Jr. The characters are vibrant, the plot is hilarious and while the satire is dated, Keaton's slapstick is unique even amongst Chaplin and Lloyd's greatest work.

Bryce I Super Reviewer
Jul 17, 2014

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.

Carlos M Super Reviewer
Apr 21, 2013

Another top-notch Buster Keaton film, one that probably peaks too early as I thought the climactic chase, while very entertaining, sort of lacked that 'wow' factor that made Seven Chances and that films chase sequence so memorable. Not to say there aren't so ballsy stunts, because there are, but they're just not as memorable The story, unsurprisingly, is simple and, as always, effective. It tells the feud of these two families (think the Capulets and the Montagues in Romeo and Juliet) and how the love between Buster's character and Natalie's character puts an end to a senseless feud. The ending was actually quite sweet in seeing how the head of the family chooses to put aside his hatred for the sake of his daughter. Of course the film is still full with a lot of clever and inventive sight gags and set pieces. If there's anything where Buster is far and away better than his contemporaries is his incredible use of visual gags and wilder stunts. This definitely wouldn't be my favorite but it's still another great example of Keaton's greatness. Definitely a must-see for any hardcore Keaton fan.

Jesse O Super Reviewer
Nov 17, 2012

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.

Jim H Super Reviewer