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Plot
Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is the spoiled son of business tycoon Frank Burton Cheyne (Melvyn Douglas). He is shunned by his classmates at a private boarding school, and eventually suspended for bad behavior. His father therefore takes his son with him on a business trip to Europe via a trans-Atlantic steamship. En route, Harvey falls overboard in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. He is rescued by a Portuguese-American fisherman, Manuel Fidello (Spencer Tracy), and taken aboard the fishing schooner We're Here. Harvey fails to persuade captain Disko Troop (Lionel Barrymore) to take him ashore, nor can he convince him of his wealth; but the captain offers him a temporary membership in the crew until they return to port, and Harvey eventually accepts. Befriended by Captain Troop's son, Dan (Mickey Rooney), he becomes acclimated to the fishing lifestyle. In the climactic race back to the Gloucester, Massachusetts port against a rival schooner, the Jennie Cushman, Manuel climbs to the top of the mast to furl the sail, but the mast cracks and he is plunged into the water. He realizes that he is hopelessly injured (part of the mast's rigging became entangled around his legs underwater), and tells the captain to cut him free. As Manuel says goodbye to Harvey, the captain cuts him free, and Manuel sinks below the water. Eventually, the schooner returns to port and Harvey is reunited with his father, whom he surprises by his own greater maturity.
Source:Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captains_Courageous_(1937_film)

Cast
Freddie Bartholomew as Harvey Cheyne
Spencer Tracy as Manuel Fidello
Lionel Barrymore as Captain Disko Troop
Melvyn Douglas as Frank Burton Cheyne
Mickey Rooney as Dan Troop

Academy Awards
Won
Best Actor (Spencer Tracy)

Nominated
Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Editing

今日は12月31日大晦日。今年最後の更新になります。大晦日だからって内容は別に特別じゃないけどね。
今日の映画は子役のフレディー・バーソロミューとスペンサー・トレイシーが主演した1937年公開の「我は海の子」です。バーソロミューはこの時代有名だった子役です。
この映画は一言で言えばバーソロミュー演じるハーベイの成長物語です。
父親に甘やかされて育ったハーベイは悪態で学校を停学になり、仕事で船に乗る父親についていきます。
しかし誤って海に落ち、トレイシー演じるマニュエルに助けられるのです。

マニュエルが所属する船の船長を演じるのはライオネル・バリモア。
この頃はまだ普通に立っていますね。1938年以降になると車椅子生活を強いられ、映画にも車椅子で出演しています。映画自体は晩年まで出演を続けました。
トレイシーはこの映画で1937年度アカデミー主演男優賞を受賞しました。翌年にも「少年の町」で主演男優賞を受賞しています。2年連続での受賞は、俳優ではトレイシーが初めてです。

年が明けても、映画や新喜劇などについて書いていきたいと思います。