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Title: Not the best version of Captain's Courageous
Review: Rudyard Kiplings beautiful novel, Captain's Courageous, is about the experiences of a rich, spoiled 15 year old boy who must adapt to the working man's life on a fishing schooner after falling off a luxurious ocean liner. The part didn't really fit Freddie Bartholonew, who was about 13 at the time and looked no more than 10. But he was a very popular child actor with lots of box office draw, so Hollywood destroyed the character of Harvey Cheyne in an effort to make it fit Freddie Bartholomew. It wasn't Bartholomew's fault, but it spoiled the film. Another version was released in 1977 starring Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalban, and Jonathan Kahn as Harvey Cheyne. This is an execellent version, and the one I would like to see made available on DVD.
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