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9	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/our-hospitality_3604.jpg]]
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11	''Our Hospitality'' is a 1923 [[SilentMovie silent]] comedy starring Creator/BusterKeaton, directed by Keaton and John Blystone.
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13	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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16	!!This film provides examples of:
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18	* AnAesop: An embroidered sampler that reads "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is featured prominently in the prologue and at the conclusion.
19	* AsideGlance: Willie stares directly into the camera just before he's yanked off a ledge.
20	* 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.
21	* CaveBehindTheFalls: A variation, where Willie is saved by the waterfall pouring down in front of him.
22	* ConvenientMisfire: When one of the Canfield boys tries to ambush Willie, his firearm fails. It then works for Willie though.
23	* CoolTrain: A line of coaches pulled by a replica of the 1829 Stephenson's Rocket.
24	* 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.
25	%% * DisguisedInDrag: One method Willie uses in an attempt to escape the Canfields.
26	%% * {{Elopement}}: How the feud finally ends.
27	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Canfields don't kill Willie because it's disrespectful to kill anyone who is a [[SacredHospitality guest in their house]].
28	* EvilIsBigger: All three Canfield men tower over Buster's Willie [=McKay=].
29	%% * ExtendedDisarming: Willie at the very end of the movie.
30	* FeudingFamilies: The mainspring of the plot. We never find out what started it.
31	* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: Subverted, as the waterfall created by the sudden flood saves Willie's life.
32	* HiddenWeapons: In the final scene, Willie reveals a large number of pistols concealed on him.
33	* ImagineSpot: When Willie hears of his inheritance, he has a vision of a gracious plantation home. When he arrives and finds out the ramshackle building that he has acquired, he imagines the same house...[[StuffBlowingUp exploding.]]
34	%% * InevitableWaterfall: The site of the movie's climax.
35	%% * ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Played straight in the prologue.
36	%% * LiteralCliffhanger: Several.
37	* 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.
38	%% * MiniatureEffects: Used for Willie's visions and the demolition of a dam.
39	* NeverRecycleABuilding: Apparently the [=McKay=] home was left untenanted after the remaining family fled.
40	* NoNameGiven: Several main characters are not being referred to by name, e.g. the Girl, the Canfield sons and the Parson.
41	* 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.
42	* SacredHospitality: Why the Canfield patriarch stops his sons from killing Willie when he (unaware of his hosts' identity) comes for dinner.
43	* ShownTheirWork: The locomotive made for the film was so historically accurate that the Smithsonian Institution asked if they could display it after the film was finished.
44	* SignatureHeadgear: Played with, Willie at first sports a period accurate (and very cool) flared top hat, then switches to Buster's signature flat hat.
45	%% * SleepCute: Willie and the girl on the train.
46	%% * SoftWater: How Willie and one of the Canfield boys survive falling hundreds of feet off a cliff.
47	%% * SouthernBelle: The Girl.
48	* StarCrossedLovers: Alas, that nice girl who Willie met on the train is a Canfield.
49	* StopMotionLighting: The only illumination for the pistol fight between Willie [=McKay=]'s father and Joseph Canfield's brother comes from lightning and the muzzle flashes from their guns.
50	* SweetHomeAlabama: The exact location is not specified (the prologue title refers to "certain sections of the United States"), but we are clearly Down South (though not quite in the DeepSouth).
51	* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Considering that if he leaves, the Canfields will kill him, Willie does his damnedest to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this.
52	* TitleDrop: "He'll never forget our hospitality," the senior Canfield says ominously (via title card) on learning his daughter's invited the man who turns out to be Willie over for dinner.
53	%% * TriggerHappy: The Canfield family.
54	%% * UnexpectedInheritance: What sends Willie south.
55	* WhatADrag: Willie is dragged by the train.

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