A young millionaire and the young millionairess he hopes to marry find themselves passengers on an ocean liner - a dead ship, adrift in the middle of the Atlantic. Two more useless characters there never were, and now they are faced with the reverse-Robinson Crusoe challenge of setting up housekeeping in the over-technicalized environment of a ship built for thousands - and not a servant in sight. The real greatness of The Navigator lies in the depth and grace of Keaton's very modern vision of a man and a woman, “drifting off to nowhere in the dark,” who throw themselves into the world of machines and somehow survive. (JB)