Captains Courageous (1977)

Directed by

Harvey Hart

Genre

adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A spoiled boy falls off a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing boat. He learns hard work and responsibility from the crew.

classicadventurousnostalgicearnestvintagestraightforwardnauticalheartwarming

What happens

Captains Courageous is a 1977 American television film based on the novel Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. It was produced by Norman Rosemont, who made a number of television films based on classic novels. It was shot off the coast of Maine with a budget of $1.5 million. Rosemont had to pay $25,000 to the Kipling estate. Although the work was in the public domain in the US it was still in copyright in other territories. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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