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The Navigator

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The Navigator (1921)

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Reviews Counted:11

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Average Rating:8.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: "The Navigator", Buster Keaton's most successful feature film, tells the tale of two innocents stranded on a liner that's sailing out to sea. The sweetly naive Rollo Treadway is so wealthy that... "The Navigator", Buster Keaton's most successful feature film, tells the tale of two innocents stranded on a liner that's sailing out to sea. The sweetly naive Rollo Treadway is so wealthy that others always attend to his every need; the girl across the street, whom he truly loves, lives an equally sheltered life. Then he and she get trapped together on an abandoned ship that saboteurs have set adrift. With no one to help them, the hopeless, helpless couple must learn to fend for themselves... Comic highlights include the pair's first, misbegotten breakfast and their initial terror-filled night on the boat. The video also includes two other "watery" shorts: "The Boat" and "The Love Nest". [More]

Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Noble Johnson

Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Noble Johnson

Director: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp

Director: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Screenwriter: Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell

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One of Buster Keaton's best, which is to say comedy classic.

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Steve Crum
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One of the great slapstick comedies from silent comic Buster Keaton.

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10/12/06
Dennis Schwartz
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09/04/05
Emanuel Levy
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Part of Keaton's charm is that he doesn't have to be zany in every single frame, which is charmingly illustrated here.

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06/13/05
Gregory Weinkauf
Gregory Weinkauf
ÜberCiné

Keaton is the great metaphysical existentialist: a modernist in the finest sense of the word.

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04/19/05
Walter Chaw
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Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Isn't as sophisticated and satisfying as [Keaton's] best (e.g., The General), but still brilliant slapstick comedy, with a rousing third act and a slam-bang climax.

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Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

An astonishingly effective New Zealand film about dreams, death, community, and the mystical dimensions of the human heart.

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