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Overview

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Director:
Victor Fleming
Writers:
Rudyard Kipling (novel)
John Lee Mahin (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
25 June 1937 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Drama more
Tagline:
The Most Exciting Picture Since "Mutiny On The Bounty" more
Plot:
Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled brat used to having his own way. When a prank goes wrong onboard an ocean liner Harvey ends up overboard and nearly drowns... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Son meets father - in his heart more

Cast

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Freddie Bartholomew ... Harvey Cheyne

Spencer Tracy ... Manuel Fidello

Lionel Barrymore ... Captain Disko Troop

Melvyn Douglas ... Frank Burton Cheyne
Charley Grapewin ... Uncle Salters

Mickey Rooney ... Dan Troop
John Carradine ... Long Jack
Oscar O'Shea ... Captain Walt Cushman
Jack La Rue ... Priest (as Jack LaRue)
Walter Kingsford ... Dr. Finley
Donald Briggs ... Bob Tyler
Sam McDaniel ... 'Doc' (as Sam McDaniels)
Bill Burrud ... Charles Jamison (as Billy Burrud)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
115 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Portuguese
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
UK:U | Norway:A (1937) | USA:TV-G | USA:Approved (certificate #2051) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | New Zealand:G | Germany:6 | Australia:G | Finland:S

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Was the first MGM film to be shown on television, in 1955. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In one scene later in the movie, Manuel has Harvey by the neck with his left hand, but then changes to the right. more
Quotes:
Harvey: I bet I know a lot of things you don't know. I know that's not French you're singing.
Manuel Fidello: That's right. About ten million people know it's Portugese.
Harvey: I bet you can't speak French.
Manuel Fidello: Right now, I sorry I speak *English*.
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Referenced in "The Waltons: The Firestorm (#5.5)" (1976) more
Soundtrack:
Blow The Man Down more

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16 out of 19 people found the following comment useful:-
Son meets father - in his heart, 5 January 2006
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Author: petangi from Blandford Forum England

A wonderful film I only discovered about ten years ago. A low key beginning, hardly anything to attract the viewer to sympathize with the predicament that befalls young Harvey. With a wonderful cast, fairly average story but told and beautifully understated brings a wonderful balance and heart-tugging restoration for young Harvey, plucked from the sea by Spencer Tracy, a Portuguese fisherman. Having to become a fisherman for two months, young Harvey finds out what he has not known in life. He begins the story as a spoilt young irritating brat but ends it restored to life and his father. A message for us all, begun and ending in eternity. Poignant, sad and enriching. Great cinema.

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