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“There are several things that make Buster Keaton’s latest picture, ‘Our Hospitality,’ a remarkable and at the same time the mos ’,enjoyable comedy the frozen-faced fun maker has ever accomplished.
“There is suspense mixed with the fun and the rescue scene over a great water fall makes you catch your sides with laughter one minute and gasp in astonishment the next.” — San Francisco News.
“One scene after another precipitates hysterics. The famous old ‘Rocket,’ greatgreat great great grandfather of the modern Mogul engine, has been faithfully reproduced, with its ridiculously inadequate little engine, fired with kindling, pulling three wobbly coaches over a scalloped roadbed. Then there is an amusing scene in the family home of the Canfields, whose private arsenal is called into play with the arrival of the traditional enemy. At the end a really gasping episode is brought about and there is the typically funny Keaton finale. In many respects this is Keaton’s best picture; there is plenty of humor. It will probably be swallowed whole by many a wide-eyed movie fan.” — San Francisco Journal.
“As a comedy ‘Our Hospitality’ is vastly superior to ‘Three Ages,’ Buster’s first full length picture. The present vehicle has enough matter to keep laughter going at a good clip throughout its seven reels, the fun rising in the travelogue to an uproar.
“To see that wabbly string of old-fashioned stage bodies flopping along over the rickety track is a sure cure for indigestion and bad temper.
“But, though there is so much of laughter in the picture, there are thrills aplenty.
“At one point Buster ties a rope around his waist, the other end of which is securely fastened to one of his enemies, who is above him on the top of the hill, waiting to kill him — ‘Let me have a rope,’ this gentle creature says. ‘I want to hang a man over the cliff so I can get a better aim to shoot him.’
“There is much more to this episode, but it pales into insignificance for danger when compared with the water fall sequence. Here Buster is lashed to a log, which gets tangled at the very brink of the fall, and while he drops over and is suspended in the air the log holds. He climbs back. Then when the girl comes rushing to death over the fall he swings beneath, catches her, drops her on a safe ledge and makes his own way back to the top of the rocks.” — San Francisco Chronicle.