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Captain January by David Butler
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Buddy Ebsen, Guy Kibbee, Sara Haden, Shirley Temple, Slim Summerville Director: David Butler Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT Cinematographer: John F. Seitz Producer: Buddy G. DeSylva Writer: Don Marquis Writer: Gladys Lehman Writer: Harry Tugend Writer: Laura E. Richard Writer: Sam Hellman Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0 Format: Black & White, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 76 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-07-25 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Captain JanuaryMovie Review: Typical Temple Movie - Which Means Feel-Good Fun Summary: 4 StarsHere's another "cute" Shirley Temple movie with interesting characters and a decent share of good song-and-dance numbers. The story is similar to a few other Temple films in which a nasty person takes Shirley away from the good people but the good guys prevail in the end. It was a tried-and-true formula in the Temple movies.
Here, the "villain" is truant officer (Sara Haden) who wants to take Shirley away from good guy "Captain January" (Guy Kibbe). Kibbe and Slim Summerville are fun to watch as peers and friends who squabble all the time. Haden is effective in her role because you just want to slap that woman!
Shirley and Buddy Ebsen team up for a very entertaining song-and-dance routine to "The Codfish Ball," the best song in the movie. All in all, it's the normal Temple movie that provides good feelings, something we viewers always need.
Summary of Captain JanuaryFour year old star (Temple) has been living with Captain January (Guy Kibbee) ever since he rescued her form a shipwreck when she was a baby. Now their happy life together is unexpectedly threatened when the town's new truant officer tries to take her away from the lighthouse keeper and place her in an institution. A 1936 vehicle for Shirley Temple, Captain January is actually a remake of a 1922 feature starring Baby Peggy Montgomery as an orphan informally adopted by the lighthouse keeper who rescues her from a storm. The Temple version, directed by David Butler, finds the little star playing a child named, well, Star, who is rescued and taken in by a salty old lighthouse-keeper known as Captain January (Guy Kibbee). Like a briny variation on Bret Harte's classic story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," Captain January finds Star nurtured by a community of aging sailors who adore her, including her hoofer friend Paul (Buddy Ebsen), with whom Star sings and dances one of the most-beloved numbers from a Shirley Temple movie, "At the Codfish Ball." Star's fable-like paradise is disrupted by the appearance of a truant officer (Sara Haden), who determines the child isn't receiving proper schooling and overall care. That decision leads to a bit of conflict and despair, but with Temple wiggling, singing, and charming her way through her character's mostly enchanted circumstances, it's not hard to have faith in happy endings. The film is offered in both its original black-and-white presentation and in colorized form. Special features include a trailer and clips from Temple's appearance at the presentation of a memorial to Will Rogers. --Tom Keogh
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