
Buster Keaton
Willie McKay
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Raised away from a deadly family feud, Willie returns to claim an inheritance and befriends a young woman on the train. Her family's rules of hospitality offer protection with strict limits. A visit to their home becomes a comic struggle to remain a guest.
California railway and river locations supplied the journey, while the celebrated waterfall rescue was constructed at Keaton's studio. The film combines period transport, location work and carefully engineered physical comedy.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
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