Captains Courageous Movie Review 1937

Rich brat Bartholomew takes a dip sans life jacket while leaning over an ocean liner railing to relieve himself of the half dozen ice cream sodas imprudently consumed at sea. Picked up by a Portugese fishing boat, he at first treats his mandatory three month voyage as an unscheduled cab ride, but eventually, through a deepening friendship with crewman Tracy, develops a hitherto unheralded work ethic. The boy's filial bond with Tracy, of course, requires that the seaman meet with watery disaster. Based on the Rudyard Kipling novel. Director Fleming went on to "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz."

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Available on VHS
Running time 116 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Go Fish, Sail Away, Wrong Side of the Tracks, Books to Film: Rudyard Kipling

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Melvyn Douglas, Charley Grapewin, John Carradine, Bobby Watson, Jack La Rue

Director

Victor Fleming

Producer

MGM, Louis D. Lighton

Awards

Oscars 1937: Actor (Tracy).