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My Wife's Relations (1922)

Keaton gets hoodwinked into marriage into a family of huge hostile people

[6/10 · 20 September 2018]

Keaton is pulling taffy when the postman gets all mixed up in it. Keaton runs to the other side of the street before the postman hurls some taffy at him and breaks a window above. Keaton is blamed for the breakage, and hauled into court, very strangely presided over by a judge who only speaks Polish! His main accuser is a middle-aged Irish woman, named Kate, who is built like a tank. The judge can't understand her complaint, thus assumes she wants to marry Keaton, and provides a marriage certificate. She pulls him by the collar to her family residence, where he meets her 4 rambunctious big brothers, and her father. The brothers remind me of those in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", only this time its the husband, not the wife, of one who is the initiation victim.......Keaton has problems getting anything on his breakfast plate, as he is constantly bothered to pass this or that around. That evening, he has problems finding which bed is his. Turns out he sleeps in a bed near his wife's. But, they have various disturbances through the night, and Keaton's bed is broken. In the morning, he won't wake up, so water is poured on his face, to no avail. Next, a can of pepper is dumped on his face, which has results, although the whole bunch is soon sneezing.......Brother Joe Roberts opens a letter with a message that the recipient(very vague) inherited $100,000. They assume the recipient is Keaton, thus vow to be nice to him from now on. Thus, they move into a more upscale place. But, then they discover that Keaton was not the recipient of the money, and want to tear him apart. Keaton does many pratfalls, both here and throughout the film. Kate instructs Keaton to put one yeast ball in a large vat. He accidentally spills all the box into the vat, and leaves. Sometime later, the kitchen is filled with foam, and the family again wants to kill Keaton, chasing him around. He boards the train for Reno to end things......See it at YouTube