Disko Troop is the captain of the ship "We're Here" in which famous novel?
Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon.
Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port nor convince them of his wealth. Harvey accuses the captain, Disko Troop, of taking his money (which is later revealed to be on the deck from which Harvey fell). Disko Troop, captain of the ship We're Here, bloodies his nose but takes him in as a boy on the crew until they return to port. Harvey comes to accept his situation.
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Nancy Chisholm
Picture gave it away for the older folk, Spencer Tracy....own it on DVD.
Elsy O. Stromberg
Nancy Chisholm, I'm pretty old, but never saw that movie.
Shelley Welch Dunivan
Mark G. Feeney,
❤
Shelley Welch Dunivan
Barry Crews,
By all!
Bob Gorby
He was an early practitioner of Disko dancing
Barry Crews
A wonderful performance by Spencer Tracey!
tbear
Richard D. Boyle, recognized the screen shot immediately! They just don't have the "movie stars" like they use too! Do they? 😊👍
Mark G. Feeney
Freddie Bartholomew
Stephen Greufe
David Robertson, I agree. Just like life itself, it should take time and discipline to accumulate wealth.
Richard D. Boyle
Easy question for a lifelong movie fan of 85.
filmnut
I saw the film at a Saturday Afternoon Matinee as a child. The ending is 😭 so sad. It wasn’t till I was an adult that I began to truly understand it and then of course read the novel. “How Green was My Valley”, “Keys to the Kingdom”, “Lassis Come Home”, “National Velvet” and John Ford’s “The Quiet Man” along with this film are all my true favorites. I do not understand today’s youth . . . they have this aversion to
“ B & W Films”. All all the films of Ford, Kapra and Huston are required viewing.
filmnut
The Film is a Masterpiece.Christopher Skinner,
filmnut
I couldn’t agree more . . . neither should, so called authors be allowed to compete against us. I’d sooner eat ☠️ poison, then buy a coin. David Robertson,
filmnut
Loved this Question . . . The whole Quiz was in my “Wheelhouse” (so far). The picture is instantly recognizable. Such a sad, sad ending. A boy coming of age . . . before the world turns him into something like our current president. I don’t even utter his name anymore.
Christopher Skinner
Pure Guess, I was thinking Disco Troop was a DJ and chose the name as it sounded hip hop/ doof doof. Imagine my surprise to find a British Policeman in Burma wrote it in 1897👀