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The Navigator
USA | 1924 | 80mins | 35mm | B&W | Silent | Live Music
Musicians: Gary Baus & Aisling Smith

The Navigator
The Navigator is a brilliant slapstick comedy during the height of the silent comedy era, one of Buster Keaton’s best comedies.
Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, ‘The Navigator’ owned by Betsy’s father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board.
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Images supplied by Aileen McGovern from her book Sky Rabbit www.aileenmcgovern.com