Captains Courageous

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Captains Courageous, 1937.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Captains Courageous, 1937.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Captains Courageous, 1937.

Portugese fisherman Manuel (Spencer Tracy) takes the fall for rescued schoolboy Harvey (Freddie Bartholomew), after privately forcing him to confess to his misdeed against Long Jack (John Carradine) in Captains Courageous, 1937.

Harvey (Freddie Bartholomew), spoiled schoolboy saved by a fishing schooner after falling off a liner, isn't getting the attention he wants from captain Disko Troop (Lionel Barrymore) or his rescuer Manuel (Spencer Tracy) in Captains Courageous, 1937.

Spoiled schoolboy Harvey (Freddy Bartholomew) sailing to England, makes good on his boast that he could drink six ice-cream sodas, then topples overboard and meets Portugese fisherman Manuel (Spencer Tracy, his first scene), a key moment in MGM’s Captains Courageous, 1937.

Harvey (Freddie Bartholemew) is conning his magnate father (Melvyn Douglas) after fleeing school on a ruse, soon exposed by the visiting headmaster (Walter Kingsford) and teacher Tyler (Donald Briggs), in Captains Courageous, 1937.

New England schoolmaster Tyler (Donald Briggs) counsels then places spoiled Harvey (Freddie Bartholomew) in a silent place called Coventry (an idiom borrowed from English public schools), in this early scene from Captains Courageous, 1937.

Rescued schoolboy Harvey (Freddie Bartholomew) learns from Portugese fisherman Manuel (Spencer Tracy) about chopping bait and manners among men in Captains Courageous, 1937, from a Rudyard Kipling novel.

A spoiled rich kid is lost at sea and rescued by a fishing boat, where hard work and responsibility help him become a man.