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Captains Courageous
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1937 film by Victor Fleming
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Captains Courageous is a 1937 American drama directed by Victor Fleming, adapted for the screen by Marc Connelly and Dale Van Every. Filmed in black-and-white and set aboard a ship off Massachusetts, it centres on seamanship and stars Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore and Melvyn Douglas, with cinematography by Harold Rosson, a score by Franz Waxman, and production design by Cedric Gibbons. Louis D. Lighton produced the film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Running 115 minutes on a budget of $1,645,000, Captains Courageous won the Academy Award for Best Actor and was named to the National Board of Review Top Ten Films list. It was also nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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7.4Harvey, 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. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Cast
- Freddie Bartholomew as Harvey Cheyne
- Spencer Tracy as Manuel Fidello
- Lionel Barrymore as Captain Disko Troop
- Melvyn Douglas as Frank Burton Cheyne
- Charley Grapewin as Uncle Salters
- Mickey Rooney as Dan Troop
Themes
- fishing
- fisherman
- spoiled child
- coming of age
- fishing boat
- ice cream parlor
- schooner
- accident
- trawler
- portuguese fisherman
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
11,537 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
81/100
- Year
- 1937
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 6 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Captains Courageous
- Main subject
- seamanship
- Director
- Victor Fleming
- Screenwriter
- Dale Van Every
- Cast member
- Sam McDaniel
- Composer
- Franz Waxman
- Producer
- Louis D. Lighton
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cinematographer
- Harold Rosson
- Narrative location
- Massachusetts
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 833624
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Captains Courageous poster.jpg
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- publication date
- 1937-01-01
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- Commons category
- Captains Courageous
- title
- Captains Courageous
- production designer
- Cedric Gibbons
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- set in environment
- ship
- review score
- 95%
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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