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Our Hospitality & Sherlock, Jr [DVD] [2024] [US Import] [NTSC]

Buster Keaton , Kathryn McGuire , Buster Keaton , John G. Blystone    DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
  • Directors: Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
  • Writers: Clyde Bruckman, Jean C. Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell
  • Producers: Buster Keaton, Joseph M. Schenck
  • Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Silent
  • Dubbed: Japanese
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Kino Video
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Nov 1999
  • Run Time: 119 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000021Y7O
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 168,537 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)


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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
Kino's release brings together Buster Keaton's two finest comedies in an extras-free set that boasts very respectable picture quality. However, they've since revisited both films on DVD and Blu-ray in 'Ultimate Editions' with very good extras that live up to the billing that are a much better bet for the Keaton enthusiast (Sherlock Jr & Three Ages [DVD] [1923] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]/Sherlock Jr & Three Ages [Blu-ray] [1924] [US Import] and Our Hospitality [Blu-ray] [1923] [US Import]/Our Hospitality [DVD] [1923] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]).

The trade ads screamed `More laughs than sprockets holes,' and for once with Buster Keaton's second feature, the magnificent Our Hospitality, they weren't over-selling it. The first of his `Southern trilogy' of epic comedies (followed by The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr.), it shows traces of his more morbid side in taking the murderous and tragic Hatfield-McCoy feud and relocating it from the Appalachians to Kentucky and coming out with a genuinely charming and delightful comedy that's also one of the plain nicest films ever made. The plot is simple but sturdy, with Buster the last survivor of a family wiped out by a petty feud no-one can remember he cause of. Returning to his birthplace after twenty years, he not only discovers that his inheritance is a broken down shack but that the girl he has fallen for is the daughter of the clan who killed his father - and they're eager to finish the job.
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1 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Deux superbes long métrage de Keaton 13 Sep 2005
Format:DVD
Les Lois de l'hospitalité (Our Hospitality) est un long métrage moins connu que le Mécano de la General mais à mon avis il est plus drôle, hé oui, sans être toutefois un chef-d'oeuvre absolu, puisque certains pourraient lui reprocher un petit manque d'originalité dans le sujet de l'oeuvre keatonnienne mais le traitement de l'histoire est si subtil qu'il est vivement recommandable. Peut-être que d'aucun préfèreront Sherlock Jr si cher à mon souvenir pour ses trouvailles : mise en abîme quasi surréaliste du traitement du cinématographe sous tous ses aspects. Chapeau bas Mr Keaton.
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Really funny DVD! 11 Nov 2001
By Ed N - Published on Amazon.com
Format:DVD
I am a Buster Keaton fan, even though I had only seen a few of his films until now. My favorite remains "The General" which is a great Civil War adventure with a lot of laughs, too. This Kino DVD, a combo of Sherlock Jr and Our Hospitality, is hilarious! Our Hospitality is the first on the DVD and tells the tale of Buster Keaton's woes when he wanders into an old blood feud between families and spends half the film blissfully unaware that he is a walking bullseye. The film is set in the 1830s and has some hilarious scenes, such as the early railroad trip back to the old homestead (some of the jokes in this part are a prelude to The General) and some great stunt work (Keaton on the edge of a REAL waterfall). And Keaton does all his own stunts, it's amazing he didn't hurt himself more often!

Sherlock Jr. is probably one of Keaton's more famous works, but to be honest, I liked the first movie on the DVD more. This one is funny, too, but it's kinda scattered, plot-wise. Keaton plays a movie projectionist who enters his movie (in a dream), solves the mystery, and saves the girl. It's really an excuse for some great special effects (back in those days, at least!). I guess some things never change (I wonder if Sherlock Jr. was a summer film...) but this film is still really really funny. Back to back, these films are funnier and more original than almost anything you'd see in theaters today.

Just a few words about the DVD itself - these films are 70+ years old, so they aren't in perfect condition. Our Hospitality has scratches and dust. The source print is ok but looks its age. At least the image is clear with good contrast, unlike a lot of silent films which look all black with patches of white. Sherlock Jr's print source is great! It almost looks new and has great contrast. Plus, the best part is the soundtrack. The Sherlock Jr soundtrack is really jazzy with bits of James Bond/Batman/saxophone music; it doesn't have the typical ragtime piano or organ music you usually hear and it really makes the movie sound fantastic (that's something you don't hear much about silent films...) Too bad there are not extras on the DVD, except for chapter search. I would have liked to see a Keaton biography or filmography, especially since this DVD is a little pricey.

Still, a great DVD, and a must for Buster Keaton fans! Get the General, too! Or any of the Chaplin feature films (get them from Image, which has access to the Chaplin vaults and has the best looking films as a result).

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Sherlock Jr.: A genuine legend 2 Dec 1999
By Modemac - Published on Amazon.com
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Keaton's "Sherlock Jr." One of the genuine legends of film history. While it's not as tragic as Erich von Stroheim's "Greed," "Sherlock Jr." is an experience that simply must be seen to be believed. Buster Keaton's mastery of physical comedy reached its zenith with this exercise in surrealism that is pure joy from beginning to end. It's only forty minutes long and there's not much of a plot to it -- Keaton plays a projectionist at a movie theater who wants to be a detective, but stumbles at his first attempt to solve a crime. He falls asleep in the movie theater, and his dream-self walks into the movie and takes part in an comedy adventure consisting of stuntwork so incredible, it made my jaw drop when I saw it for the first time. Most of the stunts here are filmed live, and Keaton uses masterful editing to bring them all together. One scene here, where he falls from a water tower onto a railroad track, actually broke his neck in real life -- but he didn't even realize it until a physical examination several years later!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Music purists beware 1 Mar 2005
By J. Benjamin - Published on Amazon.com
Format:DVD
I don't have too much to add re: the movies themselves, because previous reviewers have covered that territory pretty well. The prints are reasonably good (Sherlock Jr. struck my as *very* clean) and the speed was also pretty good, although I could have used the framespeed maybe just a shade slower here and there, but that's usual for films of this era because they were hand-cranked and usually a tad slower than 24 frames/sec.

I'm a pianist who has played silents for years, first at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a few years later at the American Museum of the Moving Image. I found the score of Sherlock, Jr. totally distracting and bizarre. Movie scores are best treated like makeup: if you notice it's there its just *too much*. With a frenetic movie like Sherlock Jr. it's simply disasterous to shift music to attempt to make clever commentaries on each scene...the James Bond reference made me groan, and the blues guitar whenever a wooden shack appears in the scene is simply childish and derivative. I think if you're into avant-garde treatment of Buster Keaton movies, I think Bill Frissell did a much better job. Anyway different strokes I suppose, but the Club Foot orchestra turned a happy, brilliant movie into a narsisistic exercise in disconcertive disruptive twaddle.

So I'd recommend turning the sound down for Sherlock Jr. and maybe just putting on of the the Paragon Ragtime albums or Dick Hyman...the movie will be tons more fun that way.
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