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Captains Courageous Brought to Life on Grand Banks Set
The feature film Captains Courageous blends Kipling’s sea tale with a large MGM voyage from Gloucester to Newfoundland and Pacific coasts. Freddie Bartholomew stars as Harvey Cheyne with Spencer Tracy Lionel Barrymore supporting as the skipper. real schooners and crews provide authentic seafaring action across 15,000 miles of shooting.
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Rudyard Kipling
Hollywood
Kipling
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Treasure Island
China Seas
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Freddie Bartholomew
Spencer Tracy
San Francisco
Lionel Barrymore
Melvyn Douglas
M-G-M
Gloucester
James B. Connolly
New England
John Lee Mahin
Marc Connelly
Dale van Every
Port Au Basque
Canso
Liverpool
Sheldon
Nova Scotia
Boston
Norfolk
West Indies
Cuba Keys
Panama Canal
Pacific Coast
J. M. Hersey
Olaf Olsson
Joe O'Neil
Pacific
Jim Havens
Captain Hersey
Actos
Havens
Oregon
Jay Marchand
Catalina Channel
Monterey
Mazatlan
Mexican
San Pedro
Santa Barbara
Jennie Cushman
Harvey Cheyne
Manuel
Boston Globe
James Cowland
Provincetown
Brattleboro
Vermont
Captains Courageous
S. S. McClure
Frederick R. Burton
New York Herald
London
McClure
Burton
Dr. Conland
Venus
George W. Eldridge
East Gloucester
Fishermen's Institute
America
England
Victor Fleming
George
Bernard Shaw
H.C. Wells
Britain
Fleming
Vickey Rooney
Oval
Menuel
Spence
Tracy