What the corpus says about The Navigator (1924)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Navigator (1924) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Navigator (1924) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:19:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ Captain Phillips · lineage · Griffin quips that The Navigator was remade as Captain Phillips, with fewer gags. · "and the navigator was remade as Captain Phillips."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:22:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Sherlock, Jr. ↔ The Navigator · people · The same long-term cinematographer, Elgin Leslie, shot both Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator. · "who was named Elgin Leslie, who shot this and the navigator and the bulk of his shorts and most of his features of this era."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:49:36 · David Sims (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ I'm on a Boat (Lonely Island video) · modern equivalent · The Navigator is a feature of boat bits, the I'm On a Boat of its day. · "That basically this was the I'm on a boat of its day."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:50:29 · David Sims (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ The General · same hook · Both started from Keaton getting hold of a vehicle and building the movie around it, but The General is a real movie while The Navigator is a series of bits. · "It is so similar to what the general eventually is where he's like, vehicle?"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:51:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Navigator ⇒ Cabin Boy (the host's read) · same setup · A fancy lad must prove he is a tough man at sea, a setup that Cabin Boy repeats while looking like a Harryhausen movie. · "Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick's cabin boy is such a Buster Keaton setup."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:54:07 · David Sims (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ Steamboat Bill Jr. · boat movie · Steamboat Bill Jr. is another boat-bit movie but with a real emotional spine about the father. · "is another boat bit movie, but it's a boat bit movie that's more about the father."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:58:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ Harold Lloyd · craft · In the ghost-painting bit Keaton panics like a Harold Lloyd character instead of staying deadpan. · "He actually had kind of a Harold Lloyd reaction to this."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:01:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Navigator ↔ Victor Herbert · craft · A Navigator title card jokes about singing Kiss Me Again to the music of Alice, Where Art Thou; the speaker looked up that Kiss Me Again is by Victor Herbert. · "Kiss Me Again is an up-tempo, like, waltz. That I can imagine. I can basically picture what that's written by Victor Herbert"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:56:31 · David Sims (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ Donald Crisp · people · Keaton hired Crisp as a dramatic co-director, then shunted him aside when Crisp wanted gags. · "One thing about this movie that's interesting is it's codirected by Donald Crisp."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:05:54 · David Sims (0.50)] The Navigator ↔ Dennis Schwartz · critic's reading · A modern reviewer says its theme of civilized man versus the machine explains why it was a hit. · "its theme of civilized man versus the machine, seen as making life difficult for modern man because we have become so dependent on it"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:06:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ Pee-wee Herman · Rube Goldberg gag · The pulleys-and-ropes kitchen sequence is described as Pee-wee Herman and Rube Goldberg stuff. · "they pee wee Hermann at the kitchen."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:55:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Navigator · fun · Breakfast gag: she puts unground coffee beans in a kettle, he drinks it, silently leaves to vomit and returns miming a phone call. · "he makes a gesture saying, I had to make a phone call."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:57:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Navigator · fun · Studio gave Crisp the dramatic scenes; they reportedly told him the film was done and then shot the deep-sea-diving sequence without him. · "Apparently they literally told him the film was done and then filmed the deep sea diving sequence"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:00:45 · David Sims (0.50)] The Navigator · fun · A title card says going on a honeymoon without a bride is like singing 'Kiss Me Again' to the tune of 'Alice, Where Art Thou' (a fast waltz versus a slow plaintive song). · "going on a honeymoon without a bride is like singing in the words of Kiss Me Again to the music of Alice, where art thou?"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:02:10 · David Sims (0.50)] The Navigator · fun · The last 20 minutes (island of cannibals) are old-school white panic racism, where Keaton's timelessness 'falls to the ground'. · "It's 20 minutes of old school white panic racism."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:04:14 · David Sims (0.40)] The Navigator · fun · A cut gag sent a starfish with a badge directing fish traffic; previews showed the audience was caught up in the story and it cost 10 grand. · "apparently they'd spent 10 grand on that gag and they had to cut it."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:53:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Merton of the Movies (stage play) ⇒ Sherlock, Jr. (the host's read) · lineage · Keaton had seen a satiric play that may have given him the idea of a story set around a movie theater. · "there's a satiric play apparently called Merton of the movies."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:51:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Cabin Boy ↔ Ray Harryhausen · craft · Cabin Boy is coded visually and tonally as a Ray Harryhausen movie, with stop motion and forced-perspective giants, even as its story is a Keaton setup. · "that movie is obviously so coded like visually and tonally as a Ray Harryhausen movie, but Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick's cabin boy is such a Buster Keaton setup"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:38:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Sherlock, Jr. ⇒ What's Up, Doc? (the host's read) · lineage · The Chinese-dragon bicycle chase in What's Up, Doc? is a complete homage to the stag-party sequence. · "The bicycled Chinese dragon sequence and what's up dog is complete homage to this sequence."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:18:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Sherlock, Jr. ↔ Corridor Crew (YouTube channel) · craft · A YouTube channel was stumped by three of the film's special-effects sequences, more than by modern movies. · "they were more stump trying to figure out the special effects of Sherlock Jr. than most modern movies."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Navigator (1924); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Navigator (1924) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.