REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 67, 11 December 1937, Page 14

REGENT THEATRE

"CAPTAINS COURAGEOUH." " Captain Courageous," Rudyard Kipling's famed tale of the heroic Gloucester fishermen and the boy whom they regenerated through ideals of courage and humanity, screens at the Regent to-night. Metro-GoldwynMayer has captured, in terms of camera magic, the spirit and beauty of the sea and of the men who go down to it in ships. Backgrounded against the stirring and lamorous, evercnanging moods of the ocean against the striking, tall-masted fishing schooners their sails unfurled to the breeze, sliowing step by step the fascinating and dangerous work of the Gloucester fishermen, and permeated with thrill after thrill from the . : of an ocean liner to be picked up by a Port lese fisherman, to final race ' ween two ships who want to be the first to Teturn to port with the cat the Kipling tale unfolds its narrative of a spoiWl iniliionaire's son who is almost against his will tn- ;i r. a new way of life and a new respect for his fellowmen with a power and tenderness that easily ranks "Captain Courageous" as one of the

most distinguished photoplays of this year or any other year. As for the cast, it is as perfeet as a cast can be. In a portrayal surpassing even his acelaimed role in "David Copperfield," the brilliant child star, Fred-_ die Bartliolomew, brings to life the" spoiled hero of "Captains Courageous," making the boy a creature of warmth, sympathy and understanding. Equally eifective1 is - ; outstanding work of Sper?er Tracy as the - ortuguese fislicrman, Manuel, who is the first to instil ideals of m uihood in h;s ultle protege's mind and who becomes his fast frieml to the end, '