Our Hospitality

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Our Hospitality
Our Hospitality (1923)
Directed by	Buster Keaton John G. Blystone
Produced by	Joseph M. Schenck
Written by	Clyde Bruckman
Starring	Buster Keaton Joe Roberts Ralph Bushman Craig Ward Monte Collins Joe Keaton Kitty Bradbury Natalie Talmadge Buster Keaton Jr.
Cinematography	Gordon Jennings Elgin Lessley
Distributed by	Joseph M. Schenck Productions Metro Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)	November 19, 1923
Running time	74 min
Language	Silent
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Our Hospitality is a silent comedy directed, produced, written by and starring Buster Keaton. Released in 1923 by Metro Pictures Corporation, the movie uses slapstick and situational comedy to tell the story of Willie McKay, a city slicker who journeys to the country to collect an inheritance; while there, he gets caught in the middle of the infamous Canfield & McKay feud, an obvious satire of the real-life Hatfield-McCoy feud. The title refers to a fictionalized version of the Southern code of hospitality: the Canfields want to kill Willie McKay, but are forbidden to harm him as long as he is in their house. Learning this, McKay decides to never leave the house.

Keaton set the film in the 1830s so he could indulge his passion for trains by creating a working model of Stephenson's Rocket, the first locomotive.

Actor and Keaton friend Joe Roberts suffered a stroke while making this film, and died of a subsequent stroke shortly after the film's completion.