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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.
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.
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.
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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A spoiled rich boy is lost at sea and rescued by a fishing boat, where hard work and responsibility help him become a man.
Captains Courageous (1937) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
“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”.
