Captains Courageous
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To Spencer Tracy, who got a statuette last year for Captains Courageous, went a second for his 1938 performance as Father Flanagan in Boys Town.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captains Courageous, a dry-docked, refitted version of Rudyard Kipling's brassbound tale, relates two stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Ranger Rogers, Spencer Tracy is as much at home in a whaleboat in Northwest Passage as he was in a fishing boat in Captains Courageous.
From Time Magazine Archive
So magnificent are its sweep and excitement, so harmonious its design, that Captains Courageous ranks above most current cinematic efforts, offers its credentials for admission to the thin company of cinema immortals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of the best books, like "Ivanhoe," "Quentin Durward," "Captains Courageous," "Swiss Family Robinson," and "Nicholas Nickleby," cannot be read in school.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)
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