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Bookmark this pageOur Hospitality (1923)
Director: Buster Keaton, John Blystone
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From Time Out Film Guide
The main reason why Keaton is funnier and infinitely more 'modern' than Chaplin is that his movies are written, directed and shot as movies, never as excuses for comedy and/or pathos. This was his second feature and first full-length masterpiece, a story about the innocent inheritor of an old feud between Southern families, who carelessly starts dating the girl from the other family. The period setting (1831, the early days of rail travel) is made integral to the action, and all the laughs spring directly from the narrative and the characters. Buster's climactic rescue of his sweetheart from a waterfall is one of his most daringly acrobatic (and most celebrated) gags.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Buster Keaton, John Blystone
Producer: Joseph M Schenck
Cast: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts, Joseph Keaton, Leonard Chapman, Craig Ward, Ralph Bushman, Edward Coxon, Jean Dumas, Monty Collins, James Duffy full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 6 mins
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