Buster, heir to an Appalachian estate and, along with it, the Hatfield-McCoy-type feud that killed his father, finds the ancestral abode ever so humble, and no place like home. While courting the daughter/sister/daughter of his hulking rivals, he takes full advantage of their hospitality since Southern chivalry prevents them shooting a guest. But it's like an umbrella against a waterfall. Our Hospitality is an American masterpiece, at once lyric and frenetic, and a sly satire on the very period setting it creates with painstaking accuracy. "The weekly visit of the kindly parson" alongside other quaint customs like wife-beating gleefully give the lie to Griffith's nostalgia for the Old South. The climactic chase over mountain crest and tor-with a raging river rescue which gently satirizes and finally tops Way Down East-is a breathtakingly beautiful observation of the fact that we are all tied to our enemies.