Watch for Buster's priceless reaction on tasting the coffee made by the girl with three unground beans and seawater. Once they meet, the two socialites attempt to cook breakfast in the ship's galley kitchen, using massive pots and utensils. Escher drawing, and the boilers, funnels, and other nautical machinery provide both a handsome backdrop and raw material for Keaton's favorite kind of mechanical humor. (Cast and crew lived happily aboard the Buford during filming.) The long white corridors and the maze of decks and stairs resemble an M.C. The ship itself is the film's third major character. The scene in which they suspect each other's presence and race around the decks, always just missing each other, is a marvel of choreography, timing, and spatial sophistication. Navigator for the film) is adrift in the Pacific, boy and girl both think they are alone on the ship. After the girl has rejected his proposal, he tells his chauffeur that a long walk will do him good, then toddles back across the street. To get to the house across the street, where his girl (Kathryn McGuire) lives, he climbs into his chauffeured car and the vehicle makes a U-turn. Rollo is sedated by his wealth, docile and helpless. (To his dismay, Crisp wanted to meddle with the comedy, and Keaton regretted hiring him.) The scenes introducing Buster's character, Rollo Treadway, are charming.
It is, unfortunately, necessary to set up a reason for this situation, and the solution (an anarchist plot combined with a mix-up on the docks) is implausible and marred by hammy acting by the plotterswhich Buster blamed on his co-director Donald Crisp, whom he'd hired for his dramatic skills.
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They have to learn how to surviveneither has ever made a cup of coffee beforeand then cope with damage to the ship and an attack by cannibal islanders.
What they came up with was beautifully simple: a rich young man and the girl he wants to marry are stranded on an ocean liner, which is adrift on the open ocean without power or crew.
Then he and his creative team sat down to build a story around their new prop. He alerted Keaton, who jumped at the chance to rent the ship. Buford, an ocean liner on her way to the scrap-heap. Two years later, Gabe chanced to discover the S.S. According to biographer Rudi Blesh, he vowed to to supply his boss with a *real* boat someday. Gabe's first assignment was a 1922 short comedy called The Boat, and he had endless difficulties with the little craft of the title. Fred Gabourie (affectionately known as "Gabe") was Buster Keaton's hard-working art director, responsible for sets, props and special effectsquite a job when working for a boss so devoted to scale and authenticity.