Our Hospitality
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Released – 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.
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