Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Film of the Week

Captains Courageous (1937)

Directed by Victor Fleming

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Anthony Esolen
Jun 15, 2023
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I’ll bet most of you don’t know that the much-traveled Rudyard Kipling, the author of the novel that our Film of the Week is based on, wrote Captains Courageous while he was living in Vermont. That’s right — not India, not South Africa, and not the merry old England, but the bustling and hard-working NEW England. He’d travel down to Gloucester, then a…

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