Keystone Hotel

Keystone Hotel (1935)

The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.

Date of release
1935-09-21
TMDB
8.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
20m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Ralph Staub

Casting

Interesting facts

Keystone Hotel is a 1935 two-reel comedy short subject, directed by Ralph Staub and released by the Vitaphone Corporation through Warner Bros. Pictures. Inspired by the silent comedies produced by Mack Sennett, the film reunites many of Sennett's former stars.

Production

In an interview with Leonard Maltin, director Ralph Staub recalled:

The picture, including all the chases, was made in seven days. I personally knew Ford Sterling, Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, and others appearing in the film. I sold them on starting a new slapstick series. Jack Warner would only permit me to contract with the players for one picture. After the preview at Warner's Hollywood theater, Warner said "sign them for a series," but this was not possible.

The gigantic pie fight was the talk of the studio on the day it was filmed. As trade columnist James Cunningham reported, "Every executive, every star, every employee on the Warner Brothers' lot at Burbank who could beg, buy, or steal his way in gathered to watch the great pie-tossing scene in Keystone Hotel, a two-reel Vitaphone glorification of The Great Army of Keystone Comedians, starring some of the gallant survivors who are bravely marching…

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