Arguably, Buster Keaton’s finest—but amongst the Keaton riches can one be sure? What isn’t subject to debate is that this movie about a useless young millionaire (Keaton), who can’t even shave himself, and his rich dizzy girlfriend (Kathryn McGuire) adrift on an enormous, deserted ocean liner without lights or steam is one of the greatest comedies ever made. It was also his biggest box-office success. Keaton (and Donald Crisp) directed. According to Keaton, Crisp was to take care of the dramatic scenes but lost interest in them and “turned into a gagman. Well, that we didn’t want, but we did manage to pull the picture through.” Keaton pulled it through all right, while playing with the abstract possibilities of the film image the way a violin virtuoso uses his fiddle.