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Silent Movie Sunday: “Our Hospitality"

  • Congress Square Park Congress & High Street Portland, ME 04101 (map)


This event is a partnership between Friends of Congress Square Park and Kinonik.

Join the Friends of Congress Square Park for the first of this year’s series of silent movies! Presented in partnership with Kinonik on the last Sunday of every month, we’ll enjoy classic silent movies on real 16mm film.

OUR HOSPITALITY (1925)

Sole heir Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) journeys by train from New York City to Kentucky to claim his fortune amid a decades-old feud with the Canfield family. En route, he meets and is smitten with young beauty Virginia (Natalie Talmadge), who invites him to dinner, but he realizes too late that she is the only daughter of patriarch Joseph Canfield (Joe Roberts). The rules of hospitality protect McKay from harm in their house, but he must outwit her brothers to resolve the feud.