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List Price: $24.95Amazon.com's Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.46 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329012328
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Silent, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Kino Video
Release Date: November 23, 1999
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 22124
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 1923
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Editorial Review:
Description:
The art of Buster Keaton is on spectacular display in two of his finest films. The wonderful film "Our Hospitality" (1923, 75 min.) is in many ways a companion piece to Keaton's 1926 masterpiece "The General." It stars Buster as a New York man who returns to his southern homeland only to find himself embroiled in a longstanding feud between his family and that of the woman he loves. Perhaps no other film offers as exciting a rollercoaster ride as "Sherlock, Jr." (1924, 44 min.). Dramatizing the uproarious exploits of a meek theater projectionist turned amateur sleuth, the film blends the knockabout physical comedy normally associated with slapstick with more subtly crafted moments of humor.
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Buster Keaton's second feature, Our Hospitality is his first masterpiece. He plays a New York city boy who travels south to receive his inheritance, only to discover he's in the center of a generations-old feud. While his sworn enemies (the family of the girl he has fallen in love with, naturally) vow to gun him down, Southern hospitality forbids them from harming him as long as he's a guest in their home. Plenty of comic mileage is mined from Buster's desperate attempts to prolong his stay, and highlights include a deliriously surreal train (run by Keaton's father, Joe) and a heroic rescue involving a rope, a log, and a mighty waterfall.
Sherlock Jr. is a delightfully surreal fantasy of a film projectionist and amateur detective who climbs into his movie screen. Like Daffy Duck in the famous cartoon "Duck Amuck," Buster is at the mercy of sudden scene changes, sent from desert to snowstorm to lake in simple cuts while he remains helplessly fixed onscreen. (Even more astounding is that he accomplished this engineering marvel with nothing more than surveyor's tools and an exacting eye.) Settling into his dream role as a master detective and society bon vivant Sherlock Jr., he chases the dastardly villains in a world as wild and unpredictable as the French serial Les Vampires: bombs are hidden in billiard balls and Keaton leaps through the torso of a peddler woman and into nothingness! No other silent film turns logic on its head with such grace and comic hilarity. --Sean Axmaker
Average Rating: 
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I saw "Sherlock Jr." some years ago when I was in film school, and it stayed with me ever since. I was curious about the "Other" feature in the DVD they played to us. So here I am, watching "Our Hospitality". The marvelous gags are something that you expect from Keaton, and also some spectacular slapstick. What took me by surprise was the incredibly dangerous stunts near the end of the film. Talk about a cliffhanger! If you are somebody that only likes summer popcorn movies from the 2000s, ... Read More
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These two films were made sequentially - "Our Hospitality" in late 1923, and "Sherlock Jr." in early 1924.
"Our Hospitality" was Keaton's second feature film after he went from making two-reel (20 minute) short films to feature films in 1923. It is a comic take-off on the Hatfield and McCoy feud of the 1880's, but here Keaton takes you back to 1830, primarily so he can introduce the main mechanical gag of the film, - a mechanically-accurate faithful re-creation of the early locomotive ... Read More
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Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
If you gather fifty critics and ask them all what Buster Keaton's greatest achievement was, most of them would likely answer The General. A select few, however, might choose Sherlock, Jr.; I'm one of them. I liked The General, but I loved Sherlock, Jr.
Keaton plays a janitor at a movie theater who's studying to be a detective. Both he and the town cad (Ward Crane) are romancing the town beauty (Kathryn McGuire). The cad steals a watch and ... Read More
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Our Hospitality has a great story, and never ceases to be either exciting or funny, and often both at the same time. The music for this movie is *excellent*. Very tasteful and not distracting at all from the masterpiece on screen. Our Hospitality is a wonderful film that everyone should see.
Sherlock Jr overall is not quite as good, though it has some amazing gags and stunts. As well, I found the music for Sherlock Jr to be distracting, because it used electric guitars and even stole ... Read More
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Keaton pioneered the frenetic, fast-paced brand of physical comedy that Woody Allen, among others, later improvised upon, and turned it into a crazed art form. "Hospitality," for instance, is an inspired goof on genteel Southern honor. But "Sherlock Jr." goes one step further, utilizing a vast array of witty, brilliant visual tricks--including a dream image of Keaton leaving his body, a torrent of abrupt scene changes, and a railroad-track gag that literally broke the actor-director's neck. Keaton is ... Read More
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