The Barbican continued its mission to make Sunday a day of silence with a screening of Buster Keaton’s 1924 comedy, The Navigator on 9 January. The film was Keaton’s biggest box office success, but I suspect most of us in the audience weren’t that interested in the statistics. Jack Black’s Gulliver’s Travels (2010) might be packing them in at your local multiplex, but will his latest be garnering new fans 87 years from now?
The Navigator stars Keaton as Rollo Treadway, a rich layabout who takes it into his empty head to get married to Betsy (Kathryn McGuire). Sadly, proposing marriage is just the first of many things Rollo proves to be not so good at. Chastened, he decides to embark on a cruise to Honolulu without her.
The film is a mostly a two-hander, as several mishaps and an act of skulduggery leave Rollo and his intended adrift...
The Navigator stars Keaton as Rollo Treadway, a rich layabout who takes it into his empty head to get married to Betsy (Kathryn McGuire). Sadly, proposing marriage is just the first of many things Rollo proves to be not so good at. Chastened, he decides to embark on a cruise to Honolulu without her.
The film is a mostly a two-hander, as several mishaps and an act of skulduggery leave Rollo and his intended adrift...
- 1/19/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
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