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Captains Courageous (1937) Rank 5 Reviews
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All Movie Guide (Dan Jardine)
Well-directed, well-acted coming-of-age tale that may have the most hard-bitten viewer in tears by the end. ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at All Movie Guide (Dan Jardine)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
The film was up for four Oscars including Best Picture, and it netted Tracy his first of two consecutive Oscars (the next for Boys Town); it was his second of three consecutive and nine total ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
British author Rudyard Kipling died in 1936. Had he lived through another year, he would have seen three of his stories become Hollywood movies. Elephant Boy, Wee Willie Winkie and Captains Courageous were all released in 1937, and were the first ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
digitallyOBSESSED.com (David Krauss)
Few movies we loved as children retain their appeal when viewed from an adult perspective, but Captains Courageous is a rare and wonderful exception. One of the finest family films ever made, this exciting and immensely human adventure story, based on ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at digitallyOBSESSED.com (David Krauss)
DVD Talk (Scott Weinberg)
Maybe I'm just a sucker for very old movies about spoiled rich kids who mature only after falling off an ocean liner and being forced to work on a colorful fishing boat for four months, but I had a pretty good time with my first visit with Captains ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at DVD Talk (Scott Weinberg)
DVD Authority.com ("Fusion3600")
Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is ten years old and as spoiled as can be, as his rich father allows him to indulge his every whim. When he is unable to get his way, he resorts to bribes and even blackmail, which leads to his expulsion from school. ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at DVD Authority.com ("Fusion3600")
Parent/Teacher Learning Guides at teachwithmovies.org
Harvey, a spoiled rich kid, about 10 years old, is expelled from his private boarding school. Taken on an ocean voyage by his father, Harvey falls overboard while the ship is sailing off the Grand Banks. He is miraculously rescued by a Gloucester ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at Parent/Teacher Learning Guides at teachwithmovies.org
MediaScreen.com
Captains Courageous (1937) is the life affirming glossy sea epic based of Rudyard Kipling's fabled travels of a young boy aboard a fishing vessel. After proving that he's not to be trusted, spoiled rich kid, Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is taken ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at MediaScreen.com
Classic Film Guide
Director Victor Fleming brought this Rudyard Kipling story about life and relationships on a fishing boat to the screen. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture of the year; its Screenplay earned Oscar nominations for Marc Connelly, John ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at Classic Film Guide
The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
One of cinema's greatest classic adventure stories is director Victor Fleming's Captains Courageous (1937). It is an adaptation of English novelist Rudyard Kipling's 1897 work of the same name, and advertised: "As Great as Mutiny on the Bounty" with ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
DVD Verdict (Joe Armenio)
Some historians would probably argue that Captains Courageous is an example of a Depression-era entertainment that pleased crowds by asserting salt-of-the-earth values as opposed to the heartless capitalism of the rich. That interpretation seems a little ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at DVD Verdict (Joe Armenio)
DVDBeaver
The fishing schooner We're Here has just pulled up a different kind of fish: rich, 10-year-old Harvey Cheyne, who tumbled off the side of a sleek ocean liner. Harvey will have to wait months before the We're Here returns to harbor, months that will ...read the complete Captains Courageous movie review at DVDBeaver
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