Captains Courageous is a 1937 MGM film, based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling. 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.
The film tells the adventures of Harvey Cheyne Jr. (played by Freddie Bartholomew, then 12 years old), the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, bus...
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Captains Courageous is a 1937 MGM film, based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling. 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.
The film tells the adventures of Harvey Cheyne Jr. (played by Freddie Bartholomew, then 12 years old), the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, business tycoon (Melvyn Douglas).
In the opening scene at his wealthy father's imposing mansion, the pampered Harvey orders his butler to bring him breakfast in bed, as he tries to impress some visiting schoolmates. Later, as the lads travel back to their exclusive private boys' school in the Cheyne's chauffeur-driven limousine, Harvey attempts bribery and finally threatens to join a school fraternity, the "Buffaloes".
Harvey finds himself eventually shunned by his classmates and rebels against the school's discipline. When the headmaster informs...
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