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Keaton, 1923, his first true feature as himself: a New York boy rides the train south to claim an inheritance and falls for a girl whose family has been feuding with his since 1810. Directed with John G. Blystone. Natalie Talmadge is the girl. The steamboat, the dog-powered log, the dam. It is a comedy about hospitality as a death sentence, and the first time Keaton built a century as a set. The train is real. So is the fall.
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The first feature that is his all the way through. A train that is real, a feud since 1810, and a dinner where the hosts cannot kill him while he is under their roof. The dam and the waterfall are the last act; the rope was real too. He built a century as a set and then fell off it.
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