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%% * ImagineSpot: Willie's visions of a gracious plantation home.

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%% * ImagineSpot: Willie's visions When Willie hears of his inheritance, he has a vision of a gracious plantation home.home. When he arrives and finds out the ramshackle building that he has acquired, he imagines the same house...[[StuffBlowingUp exploding.]]
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* NiceHat: Willie at first sports a period accurate (and very cool) flared top hat, then switches to [[IconicOutfit Buster's signature flat hat]].


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* SignatureHeadgear: Played with, Willie at first sports a period accurate (and very cool) flared top hat, then switches to Buster's signature flat hat.

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* DisguisedInDrag: One method Willie uses in an attempt to escape the Canfields.
* {{Elopement}}: How the feud finally ends.

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%% * DisguisedInDrag: One method Willie uses in an attempt to escape the Canfields.
%% * {{Elopement}}: How the feud finally ends.



* {{Expy}}: The Canfield-[=McKay=] antipathy is obviously meant to evoke the legendary Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud.
* ExtendedDisarming: Willie at the very end of the movie.

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* {{Expy}}: The Canfield-[=McKay=] antipathy is obviously meant to evoke the legendary Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud.
%% * ExtendedDisarming: Willie at the very end of the movie.



* ImagineSpot: Willie's visions of a gracious plantation home.
* InevitableWaterfall: The site of the movie's climax.
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Played straight in the prologue.
* LiteralCliffhanger: Several.

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%% * ImagineSpot: Willie's visions of a gracious plantation home.
%% * InevitableWaterfall: The site of the movie's climax.
%% * ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Played straight in the prologue.
%% * LiteralCliffhanger: Several.



* MiniatureEffects: Used for Willie's visions and the demolition of a dam.

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%% * MiniatureEffects: Used for Willie's visions and the demolition of a dam.



* SleepCute: Willie and the girl on the train.
* SoftWater: How Willie and one of the Canfield boys survive falling hundreds of feet off a cliff.
* SouthernBelle: The Girl.

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%% * SleepCute: Willie and the girl on the train.
%% * SoftWater: How Willie and one of the Canfield boys survive falling hundreds of feet off a cliff.
%% * SouthernBelle: The Girl.



* TriggerHappy: The Canfield family.
* UnexpectedInheritance: What sends Willie south.

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%% * TriggerHappy: The Canfield family.
%% * UnexpectedInheritance: What sends Willie south.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Considering that if he leaves, the Canfields will kill him, Willie does his damnedest to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Of a sort-- the title card describing how [=McKay=] was raised in New York City by his aunt also says "NOTE: Broadway and Forty-Second Street as it was in 1830. ''From an old print.''" before cutting to the two dirt roads that make up the famous intersection.
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* AuthorAppeal: Keaton had a passion for railroads and wanted the story to coincide with their invention. He had art director Fred Grabourne build fully functional replicas of trains with attention to every detail of their authenticity. However, Keaton chose not to use the early US DeWitt Clinton engine and instead had Grabourne build a replica of Stephenson's Rocket because he thought it looked funnier.

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* AuthorAppeal: Keaton had a passion for railroads and wanted the story to coincide with their invention. He had art director Fred Grabourne build fully functional replicas of trains with attention to every detail of their authenticity. However, Keaton chose not to use the early US DeWitt [=DeWitt=] Clinton engine and instead had Grabourne build a replica of Stephenson's Rocket because he thought it looked funnier.
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* AuthorAppeal: Keaton had a passion for railroads and wanted the story to coincide with their invention. He had art director Fred Grabourne build fully functional replicas of trains with attention to every detail of their authenticity. However Keaton chose not to use the early US DeWitt Clinton engine and instead had Grabourne build a replica of Stephenson's Rocket because he thought it looked funnier.

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* AuthorAppeal: Keaton had a passion for railroads and wanted the story to coincide with their invention. He had art director Fred Grabourne build fully functional replicas of trains with attention to every detail of their authenticity. However However, Keaton chose not to use the early US DeWitt Clinton engine and instead had Grabourne build a replica of Stephenson's Rocket because he thought it looked funnier.



* CultureClash: An enraged Willie separates a husband from strangling his wife in public, only to get beaten by the wife for intervening. Apparently this is a regular thing.

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* CultureClash: An enraged Willie separates a husband from strangling his wife in public, only to get beaten by the wife for intervening. Apparently Apparently, this is a regular thing.
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* AuthorAppeal: Keaton had a passion for railroads and wanted the story to coincide with their invention. He had art director Fred Grabourne build fully functional replicas of trains with attention to every detail of their authenticity. However Keaton chose not to use the early US DeWitt Clinton engine and instead had Grabourne build a replica of Stephenson's Rocket because he thought it looked funnier.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Actually, California and Oregon doubling for, presumably, Virginia, the site of the Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud.

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* ConvenientMisfire: When one of the Canfield boys tries to ambush Willie, his firearm fails. It then works for Willie though.



* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: When one of the Canfield boys tries to ambush Willie, his firearm fails. It then works for Willie though.
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'''''Our Hospitality''''' is a 1923 [[SilentMovie silent]] comedy starring Creator/BusterKeaton, directed by Keaton and John Blystone.

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'''''Our Hospitality''''' ''Our Hospitality'' is a 1923 [[SilentMovie silent]] comedy starring Creator/BusterKeaton, directed by Keaton and John Blystone.
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'''''Our Hospitality''''' is a 1923 [[SilentMovie silent]] comedy directed by and starring Creator/BusterKeaton.\\
Buster plays a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. It turns out that Buster's family and his girlfriend's family are on the opposite sides of a long-standing feud. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...

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'''''Our Hospitality''''' is a 1923 [[SilentMovie silent]] comedy starring Creator/BusterKeaton, directed by Keaton and starring Creator/BusterKeaton.\\
John Blystone.

Buster plays Willie [=McKay=], a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. It turns out that Buster's family and his girlfriend's family are on the opposite sides of a long-standing feud. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...
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Buster plays a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...

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Buster plays a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. It turns out that Buster's family and his girlfriend's family are on the opposite sides of a long-standing feud. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...
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Buster manages to mine humor from the late-nineteenth-century Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud, playing a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...

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Buster manages to mine humor from the late-nineteenth-century Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud, playing plays a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...
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* CultureClash: An enraged Willie separates a husband from strangling his wife in public, only to get beaten by the wife for intervening. Apparently this is a regular thing.
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'''''Our Hospitality''''' is a 1923 silent comedy directed by and starring Creator/BusterKeaton.\\

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'''''Our Hospitality''''' is a 1923 silent [[SilentMovie silent]] comedy directed by and starring Creator/BusterKeaton.\\
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* HiddenWeapons: In the final scene, Willie reveals a large number of pistols concealed on him.
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* RealLifeRelative: The Girl is played by Buster's then-wife, Natalie Talmadge. Furthermore, Buster cast his father as the high-kicking train engineer, and Buster's first son, James (credited as "Buster Keaton, Jr."), portrays the infant Willie.

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Creator/BusterKeaton manages to mine humor from the late-nineteenth-century Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud, playing a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...

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'''''Our Hospitality''''' is a 1923 silent comedy directed by and starring Creator/BusterKeaton.\\
Buster
manages to mine humor from the late-nineteenth-century Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud, playing a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...roof...



!This film includes examples of:

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!This !!This film includes provides examples of:



* CaveBehindTheFalls: A variation, where Willie is saved by the waterfall pouring down in front of him.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Canfields don't kill Willie because it's disrespectful to kill anyone who is a [[SacredHospitality guest in their house]].



* NeverRecycleABuilding: Apparently the [=McKay=] home was left untenanted after the remaning family fled.

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* NeverRecycleABuilding: Apparently the [=McKay=] home was left untenanted after the remaning remaining family fled.



* NoNameGiven: Several main characters are not being referred to by name, e.g. the Girl, the Canfield sons and the Parson.



* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: When one of the Canfield boys tries to ambush Willie, his firearm fails. It then works for Willie though.



* SleepCute: Willie and the girl on the train.



* SouthernBelle: The Girl

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* SouthernBelle: The GirlGirl.



* TriggerHappy: The Canfield family.



* WhatADrag: Willie is dragged by the train.

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* WhatADrag: Willie is dragged by the train.train.
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* LoopholeAbuse: When Willie learns that SacredHospitality is the only thing keeping him alive, he contrives to stay inside the house as long as possible, while he's fair game the second he steps foot outside, even if it's to get to another part of the house.
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BusterKeaton manages to mine humor from the late-nineteenth-century Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud, playing a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...

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BusterKeaton Creator/BusterKeaton manages to mine humor from the late-nineteenth-century Hatfield-[=McCoy=] feud, playing a New Yorker who heads south to claim an inheritance, only to find that the father and brothers of the girl who invited him to dinner have sworn to kill him. Fortunately, he's perfectly safe as long as he's a guest under their roof...
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* ShownTheirWork: The locomotive made for the film was so historically accurate that the Smithsonian Institute asked if they could display it after the film was finished.

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* ShownTheirWork: The locomotive made for the film was so historically accurate that the Smithsonian Institute Institution asked if they could display it after the film was finished.
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* NiceHat: Willie at first sports a period accurate (and very cool) flared top hat, then switches to [[MemeticOutfit Buster's signature flat hat]].

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* NiceHat: Willie at first sports a period accurate (and very cool) flared top hat, then switches to [[MemeticOutfit [[IconicOutfit Buster's signature flat hat]].

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