Our hospitality, buster keaton silent internet archive. Academy honorary award winning famous yesteryear american actor, comedian, filmmaker, screenwriter, and stunt performer buster keaton began his journey in the entertainment industry as a child artist. Buster keatons first fulllength feature with a single storyline, our hospitality shows the performerdirector reaching in a different direction than his fellow silent movie greats. How to put on a top hat in a lowceilinged carriage and why a porkpie. Joseph frank keaton october 4, 1895 february 1, 1966, known professionally as buster keaton, was an american actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. Buster keaton our hospitality the playhouse video dailymotion. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. How to move a donkey away from railroad tracks, or viceversa. Chaplinkeatonlloyd film locations and more by john. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine show that included family friend, illusionist harry. Buster keaton, original name joseph frank keaton iv, born october 4, 1895, piqua, kansas, u.
Our hospitality 1923 youtube buster keaton battling butler 1926 duration. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family. This brief overview tour includes pickford, chaplin, keaton, and lloyd. Travelling to antebellum dixie to claim his family estate, hapless heir willie mckay buster keaton learns hes also inherited a longstanding feud with the clan of his new girlfriend natalie talmadge, keatons reallife wife. Our hospitality is a silent comedy directed, produced, written by and starring buster keaton. Buster keaton, natalie talmadge, buster keaton, jack blystone. Tags nice bike buster keaton our hospitality maudit.
It is the story of a boy keaton who fall into a hatfield mccoy like feud. In this film, buster keaton travels down south to take charge of his family mansion. Our hospitality by buster keaton a movie to download, on vod and legal streaming lacinetek. To keep her son safe, his mother moves him to new york. Released by metro pictures corporation, the film uses slapstick and. See more ideas about silent film, comedians and silent film stars. The silent clowns film series januaryapril 2020 programs. Our hospitality 1923 was the first of buster keatons 1920s silent comedy masterpieces, which also included sherlock jr.
Keaton was a brave genius, who not only understood comedy and action, but filmmaking. En route, keaton befriends pretty natalie talmadge, who invites him to dinner. Our hospitality 1923, directed by buster keaton and john. Blystone, buster keaton, natalie talmadge, joe keaton august 21, 2019 after her husband john mckay is killed in an ongoing feud with the canfield family, a woman takes her baby boy willie to her sisters house in new york hoping he will never know of the feud with the canfields. Buster keaton our hospitality 1923 full movie youtube. Keaton loved trains and had stephensons rocket recreated along with just on a mile of rickety track just for this film. Among the things you will learn from watching buster keatons our hospitality. Buster keaton full movies with misic 19171928 youtube. The great silent stars filmed far more on this one block than at any other spot in town. Our hospitality 1923 starring buster keaton and joe roberts. Busters second feature fi lm is set in 1831 and has him take a slow train from rural new york city to end up embroiled in the middle of a hat fi eld and mccoy feud. This film exhibited how love for objects, people, and a cause can make people transcend what was thought to be humanly impossible.
Building on the popular legend of clan feuds in the kentucky hills, buster establishes an entire period world before introducing his personal brand of comedy. He went on to garner immense popularity earning the epithet the great stone face for his physical comedy that became his trademark. A breathtaking comedydrama inspired by the hatfieldmccoy feud, our hospitality 1923 was buster keatons first featurelength masterpiece. One of the last great silent comedies with keaton was steamboat bill, jr. Movie dvds, mp4 video downloads, mpg videos on usb flash drives. Blystone and cinematographers gordon jennings and elgin lessley, he crafts shots that. Our hospitality 2001 sole heir willie mckay buster keaton journeys by train from new york city to kentucky to claim his fortune amid a decadesold feud with the canfield family. A daring rescue performed by buster at a waterfall is just one of the amazing stunts in this energetic silent romp. The main reason why keaton is funnier and infinitely more modern than chaplin is that his movies are written, directed and shot as movies, never as excuses for comedy andor pathos. Comedian buster keaton was a pioneer of silent comedies in the 1920s. Our hospitality is a 1923 silent film where the canfields and mckays have been feuding so long that the actual cause for the dispute is long forgotten. Hollywoods silent echoes cahuenga tour 2018 buster keaton studio tour as part of the buster keaton weekend studio plaque dedication.
Our hospitality starring buster keaton was released in 1923 by metro pictures. Our hospitality 1923 willie mckay 21 years old three ages 1923 the boy the love nest short. Together, these works put keaton, along with harold lloyd and charlie chaplin, as one of his eras true comedy masters 1. Loews transferred to raymond rohauer transferred to cohen film collection, 1953. Our hospitality 1923 starring buster keaton with musical score by carl davis. Buster keaton celebrity profile check out the latest buster keaton photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes.
Joe and myra were vaudevillian comedians with a popular, everchanging variety act, giving keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. From my piece on buster keatons our hospitality at alt screen. Buster keatons the general from 1926 was a silent film that hilariously displayed the idea of love verging on obsession. Not nearly as funny, or inventive as some of his other films, but it does still manage to entertain. Buster keatons third starring feature discounting 1920s the saphead, which was not conceived with keaton in mind, our hospitality is a boisterous satire of family feuds and southern codes of honor. Our hospitality 1923 broadened the boundaries of slapstick and proved that buster keaton was not just a comedian, he was an artist.
Even though buster keaton had an acting career of nearly 50 years, his greatest period can be narrowed down to only about six years, starting with our hospitality in 1923 and ending about 1929. Buster keaton 3 episodes, 19501951 the misadventures of buster keaton 1950 buster sunset blvd. Our hospitality is one of buster keatons best silent films, a hilarious spoof of the story of the feuding hatfield and mccoy families, beautifully blending slapstick and deathdefying stunts with. It is the story of a boy keaton who fall into a hatfield mccoy. Trains frequently play important parts in keaton films, particularly todays our hospitality 23. He is best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname the great stone face. It was the last silent he made for universal pictures, and the last film where he had almost total creative freedom. See more ideas about silent film, comedians and hospitality. Buster keaton great director profile senses of cinema. Keaton tours chaplinkeatonlloyd film locations and more. Buster keatons our hospitality 1923 remains one of his very funniest films, but it was also a groundbreaking work of silent film comedy at the time of its release.
Joseph frank keaton was born on october 4, 1895 in piqua, kansas, to joe keaton and myra keaton. The more we study his films, the more we understand where and how he staged his elaborate scenes. Our hospitality is a 1923 silent comedy film directed by and starring buster keaton. In 1831, keaton leaves his home in new york to take charge of his family mansion down south. Silent movie clips buster keaton the playhouse 1921. Buster keaton 19171928 full movies with musicd playlist. Keaton stars as youthful dreamer willie mckay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to nd that his inheritance is a rundown shack. The post dives deep into the filming of buster keatons 1830s hatfieldmccoy feudthemed feature our hospitality restored by lobster films. Watch buster keaton our hospitality the playhouse film gorillas on dailymotion. Our hospitality is buster keatons warmup for future greater films. Buster keaton, kathryn mcguire, natalie talmadge, joe keaton. With buster keaton, natalie talmadge, joe keaton, joe roberts. Released in 1923 by metro pictures corporation, the movie uses slapstick and situational comedy to. Not the least of its triumphs is its careful integration of gags into a dramatically coherent storyline.
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