
After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family, a woman takes her baby boy Willie to her sister's house in New York hoping he will never know of the feud with the Canfields. Twenty years later Willie is a grown man and he receives a letter saying he has inherited his father's estate and must travel to his family home to take possession. On the train there he meets a beautiful young woman and falls in love only to learn that she's a Canfield... (Full plot summary below)
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After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family, a woman takes her baby boy Willie to her sister's house in New York hoping he will never know of the feud with the Canfields. Twenty years later Willie is a grown man and he receives a letter saying he has inherited his father's estate and must travel to his family home to take possession. On the train there he meets a beautiful young woman and falls in love only to learn that she's a Canfield. He accepts her invitation to dinner and quickly realizes that the Canfield men won't kill him while he's in their home. His plan to stay there as a permanent guest is short-lived and the Canfields are soon after him.
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| Radio TimesTom HutchinsonThree 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. |
| Dispatch-Tribune NewspapersSteve CrumConsistently hilarious, highly watchable Keaton classic. |
| The New York Review of BooksJana PrikrylOur 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. |
| Decent Films GuideSteven D. GreydanusKeaton's first feature-length comedy is one of his best, a comic gem set against a backdrop of a Hatfield-McCoy style family feud. |
| Goatdog's MoviesMichael W. Phillips, Jr.Keaton is at his dour best here, playing his usual "everyman" who sticks his chin out and resolutely attempts to prevail over life's circumstances. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThis 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. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. Anderson[Contains] one of Keaton's most spectacular and breathtaking stunts. |
| User ReviewDesiree VBUSTER KEATON!!!I love Buster Keaton,he's such a genius. |
| User ReviewMichael AJust brilliant. Surprisingly lots of ppl consider this as lesser Keaton, and maybe because of that, i lowered my expectation, and it turned out to be a treat. No dull moments, i was laughing hysterically at that train scene (that looked so fun), the horse ride, and many more. That last scene at the waterfall was also thrilling. |
| User ReviewHarpo ZFor the past couple of weeks I've been accompaniying a friend of mine to her Film Studies classes at the University of Victoria. There are approx. 200 students, so I blend in just perfectly. I don't bring any text books or anything, just my admiration for cinema. The first film we watched was the documentary faux, 'Forgotten Silver' by Academy award winning filmmaker, Peter Jackson. I had never heard of this film prior to the classroom screening, and it is an absolute gem. It's the so-called true story of Colin Mackenzie, a filmmaker, we are told by various industry pros (Harvey Weinstein and Leonard Maltin) is to be the greatest filmmaker never heard of. Jackson tells us a story of how he discovered this film in a neighbours shed. What he found was said to be footage of extrodinary importance and history. We are shown early footage of the first tracking shot, shots made in colour -- years before it was even discovered; sound in cinema, years before Al Jolson belted out his tunes and recorded footage of the very first airplane taking flight, four months before the Wright bros. took to the air. This film is remarkable, and heavily reccomended to cinema lovers. The second film we viewed was Sherlock Jr. by the master himself, Buster Keaton. It's an inventive and hilarious story about a young theater projectionist in love, while training to be a Private Investigator. He's framed by a sinister man who tries to steal the woman of his dreams. Buster finds himself caught up in a dream sequence of utter amazment and originality. In one particular scene, the Prof pointed out that Keaton had acctually broken his neck, didn't realize the seriousness of it and continued to film his movie. One of my personal favorite comedies. |