Jon Mirsalis on Piano. An uproariously funny satire on the famed Hatfield-McCoy family feud, set in the Ozarks and ending with one of Keaton's anthology pieces-a breathtaking and beautifully manipulated last-minute rescue at a waterfall. Like The General, this film reveal's Keaton's talent for recreating a period of American history with uncanny accuracy and genuine poetic feeling. If only for its attention to details of costume, manners and setting, Our Hospitality qualifies as one of the masterpieces of American cinema. "As for Keaton's strenuously chivalric feats," write Andrew Sarris and Tom Allen, "they established him, even more than Doug Fairbanks, as the most gracefully effective acrobat of the silent cinema."