The Navigator

This Buster Keaton silent feature is also part of the Alamo’s excellent Movies & Music series. The movie will have a live musical accompaniment by Shorty Long, a ukulele-based novelty jazz act. The film presents Keaton as an inexpert seaman adrift on a boat with the woman he loves. As he tries to steer them to safety, the two encounter a tribe of hungry cannibals. The cult short, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish also screens and stars Fairbanks Sr. as Coke Ennyday, a coke-snorting detective who is tracking down an opium ring. Made before Hollywood adopted any morality codes, this humorous film is an all-out hoot.