Our Hospitality

(USA)

Buster Keaton’s second feature-length comedy, Our Hospitality, which tackles the problem of clan feuds in the Wild West with refined humor, was his first true masterpiece. The jokes, perfectly embedded in the dark-toned story, hit their mark time and again, and no sequence is spoiled by excessive repetition or by stretching gags unnecessarily. The amusing train journey aboard the locomotive Rocket ranks among the great classic sequences of Keaton’s career; the heavily armed young man’s visit to the girl’s home is unforgettable; and the wild final climax remains delightful to this day despite its trick-shot nature. It is the only Keaton film in which three generations of his family appear on screen.

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