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Released
1937 · FILM

Captains Courageous

As great as "Mutiny on the Bounty"

Directed by
Runtime
115 min
AdventureDramaFamily

Synopsis

Harvey, an arrogant and spoiled young man whose father is an indulgent absentee, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. He is unable to convince the crew to take him ashore or to believe that he is wealthy. The captain offers him a low-paying job as part of the crew until they return to port, and the experience transforms him into a mature and considerate young man.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Elmo VeronShot by Harold RossonScored by Franz Waxman

Box Office

1937 · Box office

Produced on a $1.6M budget

Production budget

$1.6M

Also known as

  • Manuelde
  • Capitanes intrépidoses
  • Capitaines courageuxfr
  • Capitani coraggiosiit

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