Rent Buster Keaton: Our Hospitality / Sherlock Junior (1923)
4.0 of 5 from 31 ratings
1h 59min
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Manic stunt work, elaborate sight gags and mind-boggling mechanical comedy are just some of Keaton's work featured in these movies. Known the world round as the 'Stone' face comedy actor, with charming moments of intimate humour flavoured with rich pathos, uniquely graceful and characteristically hilarious. That's Buster Keaton'
Our Hospitality
Keaton plays a New Yorker who returns to his roots in the South and finds himself involved in a feud between his family and those of the woman he loves. Packed with superb visuals and sight gags including a train journey, which has to be seen to be believed.
Sherlock JuniorA mild mannered theatre projectionist dreams of becoming a great detective when he enters the film he is projecting! This is one of Keaton's finest masterpieces which within its fourty-four minutes manages to present a dazzling display of cinematic inventiveness, non-stop comedy and dare-devil stunts. - Actors:
- Joe Roberts, Ralph Bushman, Craig Ward, Monte Collins, Joe Keaton, Kitty Bradbury, Natalie Talmadge, Buster Keaton Jr., Buster Keaton
- Directors:
- John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
- Studio:
- Starlight
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics
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on Our Hospitality. - Buster Keaton: Our Hospitality / Sherlock Junior review by Steve
Charming early Buster Keaton feature set in a vague US rural interior of the early 19th century; the sort of place where arcane feuds are conducted between rival families. He is the amiable big city tenderfoot who arrives at his remote ancestral home to find himself in conflict with his neighbours, while pursuing their lovely daughter (Natalie Talmadge).
Though the rules of hospitality mean the enemies won’t kill him while inside their house visiting the girl. Much of this is sweetly amusing, particularly the long introduction as the young man travels south on a Puffing Billy style steam engine which is so slow his faithful dog arrives first (the mutt almost steals the show).
It has historic interest for Buster enthusiasts. This is his second feature length film as director/star, but the first with a single unified story, rather than a collection of linked shorts. And it’s among his best. He’s excellent as the winsome innocent, and (of course) he is extraordinary at the acrobatics in the action scenes.
The romance explodes into a classic blockbuster climax when our hero has to save the girl from drowning. The famous set piece in a waterfall is literally (yes!) breathtaking. It’s an ambitious film of imaginative situations and sight gags. Buster emerges as one of the great comic stars in cinema.
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