My Wife’s Relations (1922)

• Year: 1922
• Released: 06 May 1922
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013422/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_wifes_relations
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: None, English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Short, Comedy
• Runtime: 25 min
• Writer: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
• Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
• Cast: Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Monte Collins
• Keywords: silent film, short film,

	6.6/10
	76% – Critics
	76% – Audience

My Wife’s Relations Storyline

A large woman brings Buster to court, wrongly accusing him of smashing a window. But the judge is an immigrant who only understands Polish. He mistakes Buster and the woman for another couple and marries them to one another. The large woman brings her new husband to her home, where Buster is confronted with her brutal brothers. The next morning one of them finds a letter, which has slipped out of Buster’s clothes. The man doesn’t see that the letter isn’t addressed to Buster, who just got it by mistake. The letter says that the addressee has inherited §100.000. Believing that Buster has become rich his new brothers-in-law start to treat him kindly. They purchase a luxury house for him by installments. When they find out that the letter actually isn’t addressed to Buster, their attitude changes once more. They now want to kill him. After a furious chase Buster slips into a train just leaving for Reno.—Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}

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Buster’s Revenge!!!

Buster plays a dazed young man who, through a mistake in translation, finds himself married to tough Irish woman – Kate Price no less!!! She and her family are rough and vulgar and Buster finds he is tossed around like a sack of potatoes. Buster spends meal time passing condiments and showing her boxer brother an easier and more convenient way to drink coffee. Buster must have drawn on his childhood in vaudeville for some of the extremely rough stunts which are hilarious. When Kate and her brothers believe that Buster has inherited $100,000, they make a pact to be nice to him while trying to fleece him out of his money. Fortunately Buster has the last laugh.

This was one of the 20 brilliant two reelers that Buster made between 1920 and 1922, just before he switched to features. Even though he kept his thoughts to himself, this hilarious short may have been a cynical view of what he really thought of being bound to the clannish Talmadge family. He had married Natalie, younger sister of Norma and Constance, a year before this film was made. Although everything seemed wonderful and Buster felt he had never experienced such close family ties, there was an undercurrent that he was not good enough for their Natalie, that he was only a comic. Maybe with this movie he had his revenge!!

Fun to watch, but certainly not one of the better Keaton shorts

This is a good Buster Keaton short, but that is really about all. Part of this is due to the odd and very contrived storyline as well as the unlikable characters in the film.

Buster works in a candy store and within minutes, he accidentally attacks the mailman and must flea from the store for his life! A brick gets tossed through a window and Buster tries to make a getaway–during which time a letter from the postman’s bag get stuck to Buster’s shoe. A rather tough-looking lady sees this and grabs Buster and takes him to the judge. However, the judge only speaks Polish (huh?!) and instead of listening to her telling him about the window, he marries the two! Oddly, Buster goes along with this and they go home to her burly and nasty dad and brothers–who treat Buster pretty badly.

Later, one of the family finds the letter that stuck to Buster’s shoe and they open it (the address and recipient info was totally obscured after having been walked on and having had taffy stick to it). It says that he’s inherited a fortune–not realizing the “he” is not Buster but some stranger. So, they stop mistreating him and kiss up to him–hoping to get some of the loot! However, when they finally learn the truth, they try to beat him half to death–as if this is all Buster’s fault! And, the last ten minutes or so of the film consists of a giant acrobatic chase as they try to capture him. Decent stuff, but certainly far from Buster’s best due to the unlikable and less than inspired script. It has been rumored, by the way, that Buster liked this script because it was a swipe at his wife and in-laws, as he was having severe marital problems with his movie star wife and the family.

My Wife’s Relations review

Not one of Keaton’s better efforts, but there are a few laughs to be found in this wry tale of a man who finds himself accidentally married to a battle-axe (Kate Price) with four hulking brothers, none of whom take kindly to his presence in their home.