Capitol at 100: Captains Courageous

Name: Capitol at 100: Captains Courageous
Start: 2025-09-19T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Capitol Theatre & Creamery

Schedule

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Capitol Theatre & Creamery | Arlington, MA

When spoiled Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is suspended from boarding school, his businessman father (Melvyn Douglas) takes him to Europe on a business trip. When the rebellious lad falls overboard from the steamship, he is saved from death by fisherman Manuel Fidello (Spencer Tracy) and forced by the captain of the fishing schooner (Lionel Barrymore) to become a low-ranking member of the ship’s crew alongside the captain’s own son (Mickey Rooney).
Captains Courageous was a hit at the box office and considered one of MGM’s best films of the 1930s. It was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture. The briny coming of age adventure adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel touched the hearts of moviegoers of all ages.
Spencer Tracy won his first Best Actor Academy Award for his work in the film. It was an uncharacteristically tender role that he had taken reluctantly, but it came to be one of his best loved performances.
Captains Courageous is screening as part of our Capitol at 100 Centennial Celebration.