Captains Courageous (film)
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| Captains Courageous | |
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 1990 VHS version |
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| Directed by | Victor Fleming |
| Written by | Rudyard Kipling (novel) |
| Starring | Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore Melvyn Douglas Mickey Rooney John Carradine |
| Release date(s) | May 11, 1937 |
| Running time | 115 min. |
| Language | English |
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Captains Courageous is a 1937 MGM film, based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling. The movie was produced by Louis D. Lighton and directed by Victor Fleming. Spencer Tracy won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in this film.
The movie was also nominated for three other Academy Awards:
- Best Picture - Louis D. Lighton, producer
- Best Film Editing - Elmo Veron
- Best Writing, Screenplay - Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin and Dale Van Every
[edit] Plot
The film follows the adventures of Harvey Cheyne Jr. (Freddie Bartholomew), the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent business tycoon (Melvyn Douglas), who is washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks. Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the captain of the We're Here sailing vessel, Disko Troop (Lionel Barrymore), offers him a job as part of the crew until they return to port months later. With no other choice, Harvey accepts. He is befriended by Captain Troop's son, Dan (Mickey Rooney), and begins to learn the ways of working at sea.
Under the guidance of Manuel (Spencer Tracy), a good-hearted Portuguese fisherman, he thrives in the new rough life. Tragically, Harvey loses his surrogate father when Manuel is drowned in an accident. Eventually, the schooner returns to port and Harvey is reunited with his father, who had given him up for dead (not having any word since his son's disappearance from the radio-less "We're Here"). The father rushes to the fishing town (Gloucester, Massachusetts) and finds to his amazement that his bratty, self-centered child has become a mature, considerate young man.
Filmed in black-and-white, Captains Courageous was advertised by MGM as a coming-of-age classic with exciting action sequences. A New York Times review said it "brings vividly to life every page of Kipling's novel". A VHS version of the 1937 film was released by MGM Home Video in 1990.
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