The Navigator

IMDb link: 0015163
IMDb rating: 7.5 (12,034 votes)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Romance
Director: Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Cast: Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire, Clarence Burton and others

Release date: 13 Oct 1924
Release year: 1924
Runtime: 59 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: slapstick comedy, national film registry, underwater scene, steamship, heiress, lifeboat, romantic comedy, 1920s, cannibal, abandoned ship

Plot:

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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