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The Navigator

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35 feature instances
15 referencing feature instances

The Navigator	type	TVTItem
The Navigator	label	The Navigator
The Navigator	page	TheNavigator
The Navigator	comment	The Navigator is a 1924 silent comedy starring Buster Keaton, who co-directed with Donald Crisp. Buster plays Rollo Treadway, one of his many Idle Rich characters, who in this instance proposes to his girlfriend Betsy because he can't think of anything else to do that day. Betsy angrily rebuffs his proposal, but Buster decides to take the honeymoon cruise to Hawaii anyway.In the meantime, Betsy's father, a shipping magnate, sells a passenger liner called the Navigator to one of two Banana Republic nations that are at war. Agents of the other combatant nation are in town, and they decide to cut the ship adrift to deny it to the enemy. Betsy and her father arrive at the pier just as the secret agents are cutting the ship loose. Betsy's father is attacked while Betsy winds up on the ship as it drifts away. And if that's not complicated enough, Buster is also on the ship, having blundered onto the Navigator instead of his cruise ship.All of this elaborate setup is simply to establish the premise of the main story, which is Buster and his girlfriend adrift on the open ocean, and their comic hijinks aboard the cruise ship.Not to be confused with the trope The Navigator — which is averted in this film, as Buster is adrift and no navigation is going on. Also not to be confused with the 1988 movie The Navigator A Medieval Odyssey
The Navigator	fetched	2023-05-01T17:43:08Z
The Navigator	parsed	2023-05-01T17:43:09Z
The Navigator	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Navigator / int_1161865	type	Convenient Escape Boat
The Navigator / int_1161865	comment	Convenient Escape Boat: Just as Rollo and Betsy are trapped in the ocean with nowhere to run, and Rollo decides to drown himself and Betsy —a submarine shows up. Directly beneath them, lifting them up above the surface, saving them from the cannibals.
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The Navigator / int_125eb76c	type	This Is My Boomstick
The Navigator / int_125eb76c	comment	This Is My Boomstick: Accidentally. The cannibals flee in terror when Rollo emerges from the water in his diving suit.
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The Navigator / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Navigator / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: That's co-director Donald Crisp's snarling face in the photo that winds up swinging past the porthole to Rollo's cabin.
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The Navigator / int_14aa871a	type	Improvised Zipline
The Navigator / int_14aa871a	comment	Improvised Zipline: Rollo and Betsy make it to one of the cannibal canoes by flinging a life preserver from the boat to the canoe and zipping down on the life preserver rope. The cannibals prove that unnecessary when they simply dive off the boat.
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The Navigator / int_185e498d	type	Chased by Angry Natives
The Navigator / int_185e498d	comment	Chased by Angry Natives: Pretty much the whole third act is this, with the Navigator running aground outside some island, followed by Rollo and Betsy being chased by the angry natives therein.
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The Navigator / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Navigator / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The knife Rollo checks out before going for his underwater repair mission comes in handy later when he has to fight the sea monster. The gangplank that hangs off the side of the Navigator when it's cut loose becomes a makeshift ladder first for the cannibals and later Rollo and Betsy. The roman candles from earlier help the heroes defending the ship against the attackers.
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The Navigator / int_2dc35926	type	Ghost Ship
The Navigator / int_2dc35926	comment	Ghost Ship: The Navigator turns into one when drifting around the ocean for weeks.
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The Navigator / int_2f30a078	type	Binocular Shot
The Navigator / int_2f30a078	comment	Binocular Shot: When Rollo and Betsy arrive at the island, they take a look at the beach through binoculars in this fashion.
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The Navigator / int_34940249	type	Clingy Aquatic Life
The Navigator / int_34940249	comment	Clingy Aquatic Life: A lobster clings to Rollo's leg when he is working underwater.
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The Navigator / int_3c689563	type	Interesting Situation Duel
The Navigator / int_3c689563	comment	Interesting Situation Duel: The swordfish fencing.
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The Navigator / int_3cdacd09	type	Coconut Meets Cranium
The Navigator / int_3cdacd09	comment	Coconut Meets Cranium: A monkey drops a coconut on Rollo's head which incapacitates him for a few moments.
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The Navigator / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Navigator / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The submarine that surfaces at the last moment, saving Rollo and Betsy from the cannibals, is just barely justified by the fact that there are two countries at war somewhere in the area.
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The Navigator / int_6b53db7b	type	Help Mistaken for Attack
The Navigator / int_6b53db7b	comment	Help Mistaken for Attack: On the boat at night, Rollo has to jump for Betsy to save her from going overboard with the deckchair. Not realizing the danger she was in, Betsy starts complaining about Rollo imposing himself on her.
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The Navigator / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
The Navigator / int_6e27397	comment	Missed Him by That Much: Rollo and Betsy repeatedly missing each other on a ship, in spite of the fact that they're also the only two passengers on the vessel.
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The Navigator / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Navigator / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: When underwater, Rollo's oxygen supply gets cut off. His situation is worsened by the arrival of a sea monster which Rollo has to fight off.
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The Navigator / int_7b096be7	type	Cannibal Tribe
The Navigator / int_7b096be7	comment	Cannibal Tribe: Played completely straight. The Navigator is drifting toward an island when its anchor gets stuck in the sea bottom. Hostile natives appear on the shore. Betsy decides they're cannibals, and sure enough, the climax of the movie is Rollo and Betsy getting chased around by homicidal, spear-toting, loincloth-wearing natives.
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The Navigator / int_7c8f9c6b	type	Road Trip Across the Street
The Navigator / int_7c8f9c6b	comment	Road Trip Across the Street: As noted under Idle Rich above, Rollo has his chauffeur drive him in a limo across the street to his girlfriend's house.
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The Navigator / int_7d3290a1	type	No Can Opener
The Navigator / int_7d3290a1	comment	No Can Opener: Rollo tries to use a huge drill as well as comically large hatchets and cleavers to hack open a can of milk. Eventually, he jury-rigs a can opener.
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The Navigator / int_95e7be81	type	Rich Boredom
The Navigator / int_95e7be81	comment	Rich Boredom: Rollo decides to marry his girl that day, because he has nothing better to do.
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The Navigator / int_975ba595	type	Sleep Cute
The Navigator / int_975ba595	comment	Sleep Cute: One scene ends with Rollo and Betsy asleep on a bench, nestled against each other in the classic pose.
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The Navigator / int_a5f39a9c	type	Thunder = Downpour
The Navigator / int_a5f39a9c	comment	Thunder = Downpour: One bolt of lighting cues an instant torrential thunderstorm, waking up Rollo and Betsy, who were sleeping on the deck.
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The Navigator / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
The Navigator / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Idle Rich Rollo and Betsy are thrown into a completely unfamiliar situation of having to provide for themselves on the boat.
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The Navigator / int_afb3ff3e	type	Partially-Concealed-Label Gag
The Navigator / int_afb3ff3e	comment	Partially-Concealed-Label Gag: The scene where Buster has to enter pier 2. He comes across pier 12 where a post covers the "1" on the sign to make it look like pier 2. So he enters the wrong pier and boat and unwillingly ends up on the open sea. Also done later during a nighttime scene where Buster seeks lighting equipment from a box marked "CANDLES". Only later is the full label revealed to be "ROMAN CANDLES".
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The Navigator / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
The Navigator / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: The natives go on to storm the boat. With palm trees, no less.
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The Navigator / int_bbb3a5a0	type	Splash of Color
The Navigator / int_bbb3a5a0	comment	Splash of Color: The yellow flag, signaling quarantine.
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The Navigator / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Navigator / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The opening scene has one of the mobsters explain how they are gonna destroy the Navigator. Of course, their plans get bungled.
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The Navigator / int_cbd705be	type	Shamu Fu
The Navigator / int_cbd705be	comment	Shamu Fu: In what has to be one of the goofiest gags in Buster Keaton's filmography, Buster is underwater in a diving suit, trying to free the propeller, when a swordfish attacks him. He manages to grab and subdue the swordfish, whereupon a second swordfish attacks—and yes, Rollo uses the "sword" of the first swordfish to fence with the second swordfish.
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The Navigator / int_d49ce4f8	type	Protect This House
The Navigator / int_d49ce4f8	comment	Protect This House: The third act is Protect This Ship when Rollo and Betsy fight off the angry natives.
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The Navigator / int_de3c879e	type	Unnaturally Blue Lighting
The Navigator / int_de3c879e	comment	Unnaturally Blue Lighting: The nighttime scenes show in stark blue colors.
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The Navigator / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
The Navigator / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: How lazy is Rollo? He takes a limousine ride across the street to his girlfriend's house. Played for an even bigger laugh when, after she's turned down his marriage proposal, he tells his driver "I think I'll go for a walk," and then walks across the street to his own house in the same time it takes the driver to drive the car back there too.
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The Navigator / int_e652089c	type	Artistic License â€“ Ships
The Navigator / int_e652089c	comment	Artistic License – Ships: Any submarine that flipped upside down would not right itself but would go straight to the bottom, guaranteed.
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The Navigator / int_f951f89b	type	Bad to the Last Drop
The Navigator / int_f951f89b	comment	Bad to the Last Drop: Rollo tries to make coffee for the first time in his life; he uses ocean water. He adds a spoonful of sugar, tastes it — then dumps the entire container of sugar in his mug.
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The Navigator / int_fa2f60f1	type	Vehicle Title
The Navigator / int_fa2f60f1	comment	Vehicle Title: Rollo's boat is called the Navigator.
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The Navigator / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
The Navigator / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: The opening title card.
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The Navigator	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Ships / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Cannibal Tribe / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Chased by Angry Natives / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Coconut Meets Cranium / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Convenient Escape Boat / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Job Title / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	No Can Opener / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Partially-Concealed-Label Gag / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Protect This House / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Road Trip Across the Street / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Splash of Color / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Unnaturally Blue Lighting / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Vacation Films / int_761bed60
The Navigator	hasFeature	Vehicle Title / int_761bed60

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