Captains Courageous is a 1937 MGM family adventure film. Based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling, it had its world premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. The movie was produced by Louis D. Lighton and directed by Victor Fleming. Filmed in black-and-white, Captains Courageous was advertised by MGM as a coming-of-age classic with exciting action sequences. Harvey Cheyne is the spoiled son of an indulgent absentee father, business tycoon Frank Burton Cheyne . He is shunned by his classmates at a private boarding school, and eventually suspended for the remainder of the term due to... bad behavior. His father realizes that the boy needs closer attention and guidance, so he takes his son with him on a business trip to Europe via a trans-Atlantic steamship. En route, Harvey, as a result of another display of arrogance, falls overboard in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. He is rescued by a Portuguese-American fisherman, Manuel Fidello , and taken aboard the fishing schooner We're Here. Harvey fails to persuade captain Disko Troop to take him ashore, nor can he convince him of his wealth.
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| Release date: | 1937 |
| Directed by: | Victor Fleming |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Louis D. Lighton |
| Screenplay by: | Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every |
| Adapted from: | Captains Courageous |
| Genre: | Adventure, Action |