故事是这样的：一个养尊处优的公子哥心血来潮想买艘远洋轮船，结果和女友一起被漂到了一艘空无一人的大船上。全片没有一句对白，全靠轮船的轰鸣、海浪的哗啦和基顿摔跤的闷响撑起剧情。导演手法上，基顿极少依赖剪辑制造笑点，而是通过长镜头与固定机位，让观众看清他如何与电梯、船舱、厨房设备“搏斗”——这种对空间逻辑的极致把控，使得每一个失误都像精确计算的几何题。没有一句台词，全靠动作和表情，你却能清清楚楚感受到他们的慌张、得意和相依为命的温暖。巴斯特·基顿在这部片里几乎不靠字幕插科打诨，光是看他一个人在一艘空无一人的大船上手忙脚乱地生火、做饭、开船，就足够让人笑到肚子疼。凯瑟琳·麦奎尔也不只是花瓶，俩人搭档特有火花。

　　Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Buster Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father (Frederick Vroom) has just sold to a small country at war.
　　Agents for the other small nation in the conflict decide to set the ship adrift that same night. When Betsy's father checks up on the ship, he is captured and tied up by the saboteurs. Betsy hears his cry for help and boards the ship to look for him, just before it is cut loose.
　　The Navigator drifts out into the Pacific Ocean. The two unwitting passengers eventually find each other. At first, they have great difficulty looking after themselves, but adapt after a few weeks. At one point, they sight a navy ship and hoist a brightly-colored flag, not realizing it signals that the ship is under quarantine. As a result, the other vessel turns away.
　　Finally, the ship grounds itself near an inhabited tropical island and springs a leak. While Rollo dons a deep sea diving suit and submerges to patch the hole, the black natives canoe out and take Betsy captive. When Rollo emerges from the ocean, the natives are scared off, enabling him to rescue Betsy and take her back to the ship. The natives return and try to board the ship. After a fierce struggle, Rollo and Betsy try to escape in a small dinghy. It starts to sink, and the natives swiftly overtake them in their canoes. Just when all seems lost, a navy submarine surfaces right underneath them and they are saved.

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