Our Hospitality (Ultimate Edition) (Silent)

A Comedy with a Heart of Gold
Our Hospitality (Ultimate Edition) (Silent)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 15 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 22, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1923
  • Label: Kino Video

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Entertainment Reviews:

Fresh96%

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Total Count: 27

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 3,401
Keaton's gags always appear both effortless and accidental, preserving his unassuming protagonist's status as the eternal underdog, always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Film Comment
Mar 1, 2011
Buster Keaton's ingenuity, acrobatics, and romanticism flourish equally in this antic twist on melodrama... Full Review
New Yorker
Sep 3, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- Consistently hilarious, highly watchable Keaton classic.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Oct 23, 2006
This is an unusual comedy picture, a novelty melange of dramatics, low comedy, laughs and thrills. Jean Havez has built up a comedy masterpiece about as serious a subject as a feud. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
With this work, Keaton began to display a dramatic sense to complement his comic sensibility -- like The General, it is built with the integrity of a high-adventure story. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3.5/4 -- One of the silent comedian's most popular pictures. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Oct 27, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- Three generations of Keatons are featured, from Joseph the elder to Buster's own son, while the period detail is at once comic and -- believe it -- totally accurate. Full Review
Radio Times
Jun 1, 2015

Description by OLDIES.com:

Like his 1926 film The General, this elaborate historical comedy broadened the boundaries of slapstick and proved that Keaton was not just a comedian, he was an artist.

Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to find that his inheritance is a shack. And he learns that the object of his affection (Keaton's real-life wife, Natalie Talmadge) is the daughter of a man with whom his family has been engaged in a long, violent feud. McKay's personal struggles are punctuated by brilliant slapstick setpieces that involve an exploding dam, raging waterfalls, and a primitive steam engine. Keaton supervised the design and construction of the train, which he revived two years later for the short The Iron Mule (in which he appears without credit as an Native American chief).

This definitive edition of Our Hospitality features an exquisite orchestral score by Carl Davis, performed by the Thames Silents Orchestra; a documentary on the making of the film; and a rare alternate cut entitled Hospitality.

DVD extras include:

  • Music composed and conducted by Carl Davis, performed by the Thames Silents Orchestra (in 5.1 Surround or 2.0 Stereo)
  • Musical score compiled by Donald Hunsberger (2.0 Stereo)
  • "The Iron Mule" (1925, 19 min.), with music by Ben Model
  • Original documentary on the making of the film, written by film historian Patricia Eliot Tobias with David B. Pearson
  • Hospitality, a 49-minute alternate cut of the film, with an explanatory introduction, and an organ score by Lee Erwin
  • 2 Galleries: Photos & Snapshots

Product Description:

Buster stars as a man who travels south in 1830's America to claim a family inheritance, only to find himself in the middle of a longtime family feud. Silent film.

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  • UPC: 738329071424
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