Captains Courageous
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Captains Courageous (1937)

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7.5
4 platform(s) · 6 ratings 504 votes
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Audience 6.0/10 10 votes Synced 2026-08-29
Critics 8.1/10 Synced 2026-08-29
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7.4/10 196 votes Synced 2026-09-18

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Staff (Not Credited) · Variety 80.00/100.00

The Kipling yarn, built around a wealthy, motherless brat who accidentaly lands with a cod-fishing fleet, and undergoes regeneration during an enforced three months’ piscatorial quest, has been given splendid production, performance, photography and dramatic composition.

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Staff (Not Credited) · TV Guide Magazine 100.00/100.00

For once, a script perfectly suited to its director and star and one of the most lyrical children's classics ever made.

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Frank S. Nugent · The New York Times 80.00/100.00

With its rich production, magnificent marine photography, admirable direction and performances, the film brings vividly to life every page of Kipling's novel and even adds an exciting chapter or two of its own.

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Jesse Hassenger · The A.V. Club 75.00/100.00

On either end of Harvey’s adventure, Captains Courageous goes on a bit too long; the circumstances of his boarding-school transgressions are needlessly overcomplicated, and the emotional denouement is less than concise. But the seafaring section that makes up the majority of the film is well-crafted and gives way to surprising emotion.

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