{"id":5656,"date":"2011-01-05T23:23:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T04:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:00:22","slug":"the-navigator-1924-buster-keaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5656","title":{"rendered":"The Navigator (1924, Buster Keaton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A light, clever Keaton feature &#8211; not one of my faves, but well paced and only an hour long.  Buster and his not-fiancee Betsy (Kathryn McGuire of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/361\">Sherlock Jr.<\/a><\/em> end up stranded on an adrift ocean liner with no crew after a complicated series of events stemming from a &#8220;funny little foreign war&#8221; (ouch, not a term we&#8217;d use today).  The humor doesn&#8217;t come from the spy\/war\/hostage plot but from the fact that Buster and Betsy are millionaire kids with no idea how to do simple daily tasks, and now they have to survive until rescue &#8211; they&#8217;ve a well-stocked kitchen but no idea how to open a can or boil an egg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/navigator1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>They also run into cannibals (all island natives back then were assumed to be cannibals), deal with a submarine, and Keaton shoots a hokey underwater scene (swordfighting with swordfish, etc).  Appropriately on the same DVD as nautical shorts <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/362\">The Boat<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/362\">The Love Nest<\/a><\/em>.  I loved the end, when after a few weeks of trial and error, the couple has rigged the boat with ropes and pulleys to automate daily tasks a la Keaton short <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/362\">The Scarecrow<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reminiscent of <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5524\">The Private Navy of Sgt. O&#8217;Farrell<\/a>:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/navigator2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>IMDB trivia reveals that four years prior, the boat used in filming had been used by the U.S. government to deport Emma Goldman to Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A light, clever Keaton feature &#8211; not one of my faves, but well paced and only an hour long. Buster and his not-fiancee Betsy (Kathryn McGuire of Sherlock Jr. end up stranded on an adrift ocean liner with no crew after a complicated series of events stemming from a &#8220;funny little foreign war&#8221; (ouch, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,214,955,1197,1195,1196],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-buster-keaton","tag-cannibalism","tag-emma-goldman","tag-kidnapping","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10570,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/10570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}