Rent Buster Keaton: Our Hospitality / Go West / College (1927)

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Rent Buster Keaton: Our Hospitality / Go West / College (aka Buster Keaton: Vol.3) Online DVD & Blu-ray Rental
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Synopsis:
Three classic films starring and directing Buster Keaton.

Our Hospitality (1923)
Keaton is luckless William McKay, who must journey down South to view his lacklustre inheritance, only to be seduced along the way by one of the Canfields, Virginia, who lures him to her family's house so that the men of the clan can shoot him down. But William knows that the Canfield men won't kill him as long as he's in their house, so he endeavours to stay put there, against all obstacles.
Go West (1925)
Friendless abandons city life to ride the rails to an Arizona ranch, where his ineptitude at almost everything only makes his nickname even more accurate. But when his one beloved companion, a cow named Brown Eyes, seems to be headed to a slaughterhouse fate, Friendless intervenes, and the resulting cattle stampede through the streets of Los Angeles is one of Keaton's most understandably famous and acclaimed sequences.
College (1927)
Keaton is bookworm Ronald; whose high school girl Mary ditches him for someone with the athletic prowess that Ronald lacks. Determined to win her back, Ronald enters college with an eye on sports, but two left feet.
Actors:
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Directors:
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Producers:
Joseph M. Schenck, Buster Keaton
Writers:
Jean C. Havez, Clyde Bruckman, Joseph A. Mitchell, Lex Neal, Raymond Cannon, Carl Harbaugh, Bryan Foy
Aka:
Buster Keaton: Vol.3
Studio:
Eureka
Genres:
Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sports & Sport Films, Thrillers
BBFC:
Release Date:
Not available for rental
Run Time:
222 minutes
Disc 1:
Disc 2:
Disc 3:
BBFC:
Release Date:
24/08/2020
Run Time:
222 minutes
Languages:
English LPCM Mono, Silent
Subtitles:
None
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.37:1
Colour:
B & W
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Our Hospitality: new audio commentary by silent film historian Rob Farr
  • Hospitality (55 mins): early shorter version of Our Hospitality, presented with optional commentary by film historian Polly Rose
  • Making Comedy Beautiful (26 mins): video essay by Patricia Eliot Tobias
  • Go West: new audio commentary by film historians Joel Goss and Bruce Lawton
  • Go West: new video essay by John Bengtson (Silent Echoes / Silent Traces /Silent Visions) on Go West's filming locations
  • A Window on Keaton (28 mins): new video essay by David Cairns
  • Go West (1923, 12 mins): short film
  • College: video essay by John Bengtson on College's filming locations
  • The Railrodder (1965, 24 mins): produced by the National Film Board of Canada and starring Buster Keaton in one of his final film roles
  • The Railrodder: optional audio commentary with director Gerald Potterton and cameraman David De Volpi
  • Buster Keaton Rides Again (19655, 55 mins): documentary feature produced concurrently with filming of The Railrodder
  • Q&A with Gerald Potterton (55 mins): audio recording of a post-screening
  • Q&A with The Railrodder Sector Gerald Potterton, and David De Volpi
  • Stills Galleries
Disc 1:
This disc includes the following:
- Our Hospitality (1923)
Disc 2:
This disc includes the following:
- Go West (1925)
Disc 3:
This disc includes the following:
- College (1927)

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Reviews (2) of Buster Keaton: Our Hospitality / Go West / College

‘She’s not going!’ - Buster Keaton: Our Hospitality / Go West / College review by LJ

Spoiler Alert
19/10/2023

Our Hospitality – I could watch this silent movie just for the fascinating old timey train but it is a decent story too with jaw-dropping stunts.

Go West –While the story of a man’s love for a cow and the lengths he will go to to save her life is lovely, it is overshadowed by the mixed messaging in this silent movie.

College – the dullest Buster Keaton silent film I’ve seen, because there is almost no plot.

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on College. - Buster Keaton: Our Hospitality / Go West / College review by Steve

Spoiler Alert
22/04/2025

Diverting, though ultimately unexceptional silent comedy which lacks the inspiration we usually expect from Buster Keaton. Most obviously, it is two years after Harold Lloyd in The Freshman and this is a bit of a rip off. Only it’s not as good, and did much worse at the box office.

Which was a problem as Keaton made a huge loss the previous year on The General. He has lost his credit as director. And he's still cast as a boy, even though now 31. There is an impression of his star beginning to fade, especially as College arrived at the same time as sound in The Jazz Singer.

Buster plays an unpopular bookworm who graduates from high school and follows his girl (Anne Cornwall) to college*. They break up because she desires a more athletic guy, so the swot seeks to prove himself on the track while bullied by the arrogant jock (Harold Goodwin) who wants to date his ex.

Most of the action is Buster performing athletic events badly, which looks improvised and lacklustre. Put a group of sport shy kids on a playing field, and they will come up with this stuff. It recovers for a decent climax and there are a couple of big laughs. But this is a misfire. 

*There is a scene in blackface.

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