Our Hospitality

A Comedy with a Heart of Gold
Our Hospitality (1923)
Timing: 1:13 (73 min)

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Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
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Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Craig Ward, Joe Keaton, Kitty Bradbury, Buster Keaton Jr., Erwin Connelly, Edward Coxen
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Gordon Jennings
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Short description

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

What's left behind the scenes

  • The film used a meticulously recreated model of 'The Rocket' (one of the first locomotives, built in 1829 by George and Robert Stephenson). An equally accurate replica was the bicycle at the beginning of the film – so accurate that, according to Buster Keaton, it later became part of the Smithsonian Institution’s collection.
  • By the early 1950s, all copies of the film had been lost. In 1952, actor James Mason (1909-1984), who had bought Keaton’s former home, discovered a surviving copy of the film hidden in a secret compartment, making it available for viewing once again.
  • During filming, actor Joe Roberts (1871-1923) suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized. Roberts insisted on returning to the set and died shortly after completing work on the film.
  • Buster Keaton (1895-1966), who never used stunt doubles during filming, nearly drowned while shooting one of the stunts when the safety rope broke and the actor fell into the river. He was found after 10 minutes lying motionless on the shore. The actor recovered from this incident, but decided to move the rest of the filming to studio sets in Los Angeles. The waterfall scene was also filmed in the studio using models. However, the stunt with his character flying on a rope towards the waterfall was filmed without doubles and on location.

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