Light House presents a silent film masterpiece, The Navigator (U), with live organ
accompaniment provided by Steve Tovey, on Thursday 25 September, 7pm to raise money for the Mayor’s charities. The Navigator was written by and stares Buster Keaton. Tickets cost: £5 full price / £3.50 concessions. To book tickets contact the Mayor’s Parlour, 01902 554090/1 or e: mayoral@wolverhampton.gov.uk.
The incredible conception for this 1924 film began when Keaton learned of a large passenger ship that was due to be scrapped. Seeing an opportunity Keaton purchased the ship for a low price and proceeded to build a story around the massive prop. Rollo Treadway, played by Keaton, is a rich and arrogant young man who suddenly decides to marry his sweetheart Betsey O’Brien (Kathryn McGuire). Rejecting his proposal Treadway embarks on the honeymoon by himself, but awakes the following morning to find that the passenger ship he boarded is empty and drifting aimlessly across the ocean. However, by a series of sinister events, it seems that Betsy has also stumbled aboard the doomed ship.
The Navigator was directed by Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton in 1924.
Tickets cost: £5 full price / £3.50 concessions. To book tickets contact the Mayor’s Parlour, 01902 554090/1 or e: mayoral@wolverhampton.gov.uk. All proceeds go to the Mayor’s general charities fund.
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For further information contact Ren Walton on t: 01902 716055 / e: ren@light-house.co.uk