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6.9
Genres are ComedyFamilyMusi Produced in 1936, USA
Available Quality: DVD
Rating: 6.9 out of 10 (419 votes)
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720x480 | 739 MiB |
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| Actors | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Buddy Ebsen | Nella Walker | Guy Kibbee | Sara Haden |
| Jane Darwell | George Irving | Shirley Temple | |
| Directors | |||
| David Butler | |||
Storyline
Plot Summary:
Shirley lives with a lighthouse keeper (Kibbee) who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer (Haden) decides she should go to boarding school, but shes rescued by relatives. Buddy Ebsen dances At The Codfish Ball with Shirley.
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lugonian
25 May 2012
The Captains Kid
CAPTAIN January (Fox, 1936), directed by David Butler, is prime ShirleyTemple in a formula story about an orphan named Star who is beingraised by Captain January (Guy Kibbee), a crusty old lighthouse keeperof Cape Tempest, Maine, after being rescued from a shipwreck that hasdrowned both her parents four years ago. All goes well until AgathaMorgan (Sara Haden), a new tyrant officer from Salem, who feels thatthe child isn't being reared properly, makes arrangements to take thechild away from him and have her placed in an institution.Based on the story by Laura E. Richards, CAPTAIN January is an updatedreworking to an earlier 1924 Principal Pictures 1924 silent versionstarring Baby Peggy, Hobart Bosworth and Irene Rich. As much as thisnew adaptation has the makings of a straight drama, due to Temple'smusical talents, and the support of a young hoofer named Buddy Ebsen(on loan from MGM), song numbers were inserted to give it some addedsparkle. With the score by Lew Pollack, Sidney Mitchell and JackYellen, songs include: "Early Bird" (sung by Shirley Temple); "TheCodfish Bowl" (sung and danced by Temple with Buddy Ebsen); a portionfrom "Lucia di Lammermoor" (an opera by Gaetana Donizetti, performed byTemple, Guy Kibbee and Slim Summerville) "The Right Somebody to Love"(sung by Temple/ and unseen chorus during dream sequence); "The RightSomebody to Love" (reprise by Temple) and "The Codfish Bowl" (sung byTemple, Kibbee and Summerville). With the exception of a dreamsequence, where singing is possible, all the other song numbers areinserted the story, with the music played by an off-screen orchestraright on cue. For the fade-in, it's morning and Kibbee places a recordplayer into Temple's bedroom. Temple awakens, stretches her arms intothe air and looking straight into the camera starts singing the openinglyrics of "Good Morning" which begins her opening number of "EarlyBird." She dances her way to the bathroom where she changes into hersailor clothes, and occasionally continues to look her way towards thecamera as she brushes her teeth. A little fake, but not as imaginativeas her next number, "The Codfish Bowl," displaying the dancing talentsof both Temple and Buddy Ebsen. This is performed on the docksurrounded by loafing seamen playing a harmonica and according beforethe hi-fi off-screen orchestration sets in. A show stopper that'sregrettable in not having Ebsen and Temple performing another one foran encore.The supporting cast consists of Jerry Tucker as Cyril Morgan; NellaWalker as Mary Mason; George Irving as John Mason; Harry Hayden as IraJ. Slocum; and James Farley as the Deputy Sheriff.While 20th Century-Fox might have used some of its own resident lovableold coots as Claude Gillingwater Sr., playing Captain January, forexample, the studio used Guy Kibbee from Warner Brothers, who, in thefinal product, proved to be the logical choice. Kibbee also makes amemorable over-sized baby with a bib sitting in the high chair in anamusing dream sequence with Temple acting as his nursemaid.Aside from some melodramatic scenes, including Temple crying for "Cap"as she is being being taken away by the officers after losing hisposition as lighthouse keeper, CAPTAIN January is equipped withamusements, the best being the exchanges between Guy Kibbee and theunderrated Slim Summerville as Captain Nazro, January's best friend,along with the middle-aged Eliza Croft (Jane Darwell), a rich widowwoman after the affections of January. Buddy Ebsen, years beforeimmortalized on television as Jed Clampett in THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES(1962-1971), supports as the loafer with a talent for dancing who findscompanionship with the local school teacher named Mary (June Lang).Their characters are essential to the plot, but both have little to do.The story relatively belongs to the trio of Temple, Kibbee andSummerville. Temple, who rarely gets a chance to share screen time with anotherchild actor of equal age status, does so this time with Cyril Morgan(Jerry Tucker), a precocious but obnoxious little boy with whom shefinds she has to compete in an entrance exam to enter the third grade.It so happens that Cyril happens to be the nephew of the woman whowants to take Star away from January. As much as the boy keeps tellingStar that she knows nothing, this equally precocious little girleventually displays how much she does know and more.CAPTAIN January, at 76 minutes, was one of the handful of feature filmsdisplayed in 1989 on Playhouse Video, a division of CBS/Fox Video, aspart of the Shirley Temple collection. With video transfersatisfactory, most important, it's complete, with the restoration ofthe closing cast credits to the underscoring to "The Codfish Bowl",usually cut from TV prints. In some local television markets(particulary the New York City area prior to 1976), the closing castcredits was substituted with a NTA (National Television Association)logo. When the Disney Cable Channel presented Shirley Temple movies inthe early 1990s, all of which were colorized, the closing cast creditswere included while prints for American Movie Classics (1996-2001) andlater, the Fox Movie Channel, in the original black and white format,eliminated the closing credits with an insertion of a THE END titlecard taken from another movie. FMC later had the closing creditsrestored. While the Shirley Temple collection from Playhouse Video hasbeen out of print, CAPTAIN January can also found colorized in both theVHS and DVD format.Regardless of format CAPTAIN January, is recommended viewing for adultsand youngsters alike, especially those who endure themselves withold-fashioned screen entertainment equipped with comedy, songs and atouch sentiment combined. (**1/2
moonspinner55
25 May 2012
Archaic cuteness...
Shirley Temple's films for Twentieth Century Fox aren't negligiblebecause they're poorly-made (Darryl F. Zanuck supervised most of them,after all); they don't retain much of a "classic" stature among cinemaaficionados mainly because they're weighed down with the syrupyoptimism of Depression-era Hollywood. 1930s audiences were placated bythe delight of seeing a dimply, often orphaned sunshine girl making thegrown-ups look foolish by comparison (they fretted and wrung theirhands while she danced her troubles away). Seen these many years later,Temple's vehicles barely get by on story (aided always by musicalsequences to bolster the content), and her timing (always too-perfect)and exaggerated reactions might leave most modern viewers rolling theireyes. No one could possibly be blamed for their exasperation overTemple's performance here (shouting lines at the top of her lungs) orthe perverseness of her dance steps, sashaying with a crowd of sailorsto "At the Codfish Ball". Still, the fantasy aspect of this particularstory, previously filmed in 1924 from the book by Laura E. Richard, isenough to captivate those in the proper saccharine spirit. Seems Shirlwas pulled from a shipwreck by a government-appointed lighthousekeeper, but when a truant officer from the State Board finds out thetyke isn't in school, she threatens to take the kid away. It doesn'treally matter if the prune-faced officer has a point that Temple isn'tbeing raised properly (the woman is turned into the proverbialvillainess almost immediately); one can see right away that Temple canhold her own, taking care of herself and her elderly guardian in thebargain (as well as the local widow who has her hooks in for theCaptain). Temple isn't the only one overly-rehearsed; Guy Kibbee'sJanuary is cued for wide-eyed reactions so often you wonder if maybe ifhe didn't film them all in one day. The dialogue is steeped inwaterfront metaphors ("You can't rush a trout!" ... "Well, don't giveup the ship!), and something about the whole enterprise seems strangelypixilated. ** from ****
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