Review of Captains Courageous

The movie was said to have been made on a Hollywood soundstage, but it is the performances that count. Using major stars of the day, the story is about a spoiled rich boy who is taken by his father from his boarding school onto an ocean liner where he is expected to learn more about life. But the boy sticks to his old mentality until he happens to fall off the liner into the ocean, then being picked up by a fishing trawler full of poor sailors. And the boy finally learns how he cannot compel people to obey him anymore but has to follow what the crew of the trawler tells him to do.

Basically predictable, but interesting for the kiddiewinks. Hopefully I can find the book someday.