Buster Keaton Our Hospitality ( Laurel Hardy)
The Canfield and McKay families have been feuding for so long, no one remembers the reason the feud started in the first place. One stormy night in 1810, family patriarch John McKay and his rival James Canfield kill each other. After the tragic death of her husband, John s wife decides her son Willie will not suffer the same fate. She moves to New York to live with her sister, who after the mother s death raises him without telling him of the feud. Twenty years later, Willie receives a letter informing him that his father s estate is now his. His aunt tells him of the feud, but he decides to return to his Southern birthplace anyway to claim his inheritance. On the train ride, he meets a girl, Virginia. They are shy to each other at first, but become acquainted during many train mishaps. At their destination, she is greeted by her father and two brothers; she, it turns out, is a Canfield. Willie innocently asks one of the brothers where the McKay estate is. The brother offers to show him the
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