The Navigator
About The Navigator
Rollo Treadway, who has never done a chore, proposes to his neighbor Betsy O'Brien. She refuses. He still boards a liner. Spies cast that ship adrift with both of them on it and nobody else. They have to run a galley, a deck, and a hull they do not understand. Buster Keaton plays Rollo. Kathryn McGuire plays Betsy.
Cast & crew
More about The Navigator
Keaton directed with Donald Crisp, and he produced and edited. Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, and Joseph A. Mitchell wrote it. Elgin Lessley and Byron Houck photographed. William Axt is credited with music. The cost on record is $385,000 and the box-office figure is $680,406. Dates include September 28 and October 13, 1924. The listed length is 59 minutes. Frederick Vroom and Noble Johnson are billed. Named to the National Film Registry in 2018.
Themes
Look
Elgin Lessley and Byron Houck shot the empty liner.
Music
William Axt is credited with the music.
Preservation
A print survives. Named to the National Film Registry in 2018.
Notes
- Crisp is the co-director, not a player in the leads.
- The two of them are the whole crew.
- The $680,406 figure is the recorded box office, not a later estimate.
- Johnson is in the island sequence.
Awards
- National Film Registry (2018)
Scenes
- They find each other on a ship that has already left the dock.
- Breakfast in the galley defeats both of them.
