Released – November, 1923 

Directed By - John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton

Starring – Buster Keaton (Willie McKay), Joe Roberts (Joseph Canfield), Natalie Talmadge (Virginia Canfield), Ralph Bushman (Clayton Canfield).

Description – A silent slapstick comedy that satirizes the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud. In this story the Canfield and McKay families have been feuding for son long that no one can remember what the feud is actually about.

Willie McKay was sent to New York as a child to be raised away from and without knowing anything about the family feud. Twenty-one years have passed and upon learning of his father’s death Willie is going back home to claim his family estate even after being told of the feud by the aunt who has raised him.

On the train home, Willie meets Virginia and they hit it off. Virginia invites Willie to dinner at her home – the Canfield home. Upon learning that a McKay will be in the house it is decided by Virginia’s father that Willie must be killed, but not while in the home.

Willie, oblivious to the whole plan, luckily stays alive when a series of incidents prevent him from actually leaving the home.

However, there is a target on his back; and just where do the women’s dress and the waterfall come in?

NOTABLE: Actress Natalie Talmadge is the wife of Buster Keaton.

Sadly, during filming actor and friend of Keaton, Joseph Canfield suffered a stroke. Another would follow shortly after filming and would prove fatal.

Our Hospitality/Sherlock, Jr.

The Art of Buster Keaton (The General / Sherlock, Jr. / Our Hospitality / The Navigator / Steamboat Bill Jr. / College / Three Ages / Battling Butler / Go West / The Saphead / Seven Chances / 21 Short Films)

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Released - April, 1923 

Directed By - Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor

Starring – Harold Lloyd (The Boy), Mildred Davis (The Girl), Bill Strother (The Pal), Noah Young (The Law), Wescott Clarke (The Floorwalker).

Description – After saying goodby to his Mother and girlfriend at the trainstation (although it looks like he is going to the gallows), The Boy is off to the big city to find success.

He takes a sales clerk job at the Da Vore Department store earning a very modest wage. However, in an effort to not cause concern with his mother and girlfriend, he says he is doing much better than he actually is.

This false impression causes his girlfriend to believe that he can now support a family and she takes a train to join him. Not wanting to admit to his limited success, The Boy now pretends to be the store’s General Manager.

After hearing the real General Manager offer $1000 to anyone who can come up with a good idea that will bring more customers into the store, The Boy has a brainstorm. He partners with his construction worker friend ‘Limpy’ Bill offering him $500 if he will climb the 12 story building where the store is located.

This stunt generates a great deal of publicity, but there is one problem. It turns out that Bill is wanted by the police and The Boy is forced to climb the building himself.

NOTABLE: In 1994 this film was added to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress.

The image of Harold Lloyd holding onto the bending clock hands on the side of the building is one of the most famous screen images of all time.

Harold Lloyd performed his own climbing stunts in spite of losing a thumb and forefinger four years earlier working on another film.. A prosthetic glove was used to disguise the deformity.

Personal Note: This is a classic silent comedy that when presented at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival as part of a compilation film produced by Lloyd generated renewed interest in the legendary silent comedian. The film is both very funny and very exciting.

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Released – December, 1921 

Directed By - Fred C. Newmeyer

Starring – Harold Lloyd (The Boy), Mildred Davis (The Girl), Noah Young (The Rowdey Element), Dick Sutherland (The Maharagah).

Description – A boy can not receive his girlfriends father’s marriage blessing until he does one thing. He must prove to the father that he is capable of doing something worthwhile. In an effort to impress the father, he joins the Navy.

The ship he is on docks in a Middle Eastern Kingdom. The girl and her father sail on their yacht to meet the boy at the Middle East dock. Soon after they arrive, the girl is kidnapped by the local Maharagah with her only hope of being saved now in the boys hands.

NOTABLE:  This was popular silent screen comedy actor Harold Lloyd’s first feature film making him just the second silent comedian to do so.

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Released – January, 1921 

Directed By -  Charles Chaplin

Starring – Charlie Chaplin (The Tramp), Jackie Coogan (The Kid (“John”), Edna Purviance (Mother).

Description – Finding an abandoned baby in an alley, The Tramp cares for it. As the baby grows into a child, the pair become an effective team of scammers in order to survive.

Events that are tied to the baby’s original abandonment by his now successful mother, an opera singer, soon catch up with the pair and the authorities are poised to take the child to an orphanage.

With his heart breaking, The Tramp makes a desperate attempt to regain the child. Having done so, the two go into hiding. However, this story is far from being over.

NOTABLE: This is the first feature length comedy film to successfully combine comedy and human drams.

Though Chaplin’s character of The Tramp was already familiar to movie audiences, this was the first time they saw him with emotional depth. They loved it!

This film made actor Jackie Coogan, who previously had been working in vaudeville, the first major child movie star.

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