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Captains Courageous is a 1937 American adventure drama film starring Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore and Melvyn Douglas. Based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Rudyard Kipling, the film had its world premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.
Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlantic.
With Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas. A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
When spoiled Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is suspended from boarding school, his businessman father (Melvyn Douglas) takes him to Europe on a business trip.
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Harvey (Freddie Bartholemew) is conning his magnate father (Melvyn Douglas) after fleeing school on a ruse, soon exposed by the visiting headmaster (Walter Kingsford) and teacher Tyler (Donald Briggs), in , 1937.
“Captains Courageous”, opens with the spoilt callow school boy protagonist Harvey falling into the sea from an ocean liner off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. He is rescued by a nearby dory from the cod fishing schooner, “We’re Here”.
A spoiled rich kid learns the meaning of an honest day's work when he falls overboard on a cruise to England and is rescued by the crew of a New England...
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth.
Orphan Harvey Cheyne Jr. (Ken Vadas), a pampered young heir to a fortune, embarks on a luxury cruise to England. Not used to sailing, the boy gets seasick, falls off of the ship and...
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