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Captain January
1936
· Movie
· 77 min
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71/100
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A lighthouse keeper named Captain January finds a little girl shipwrecked near his island and raises her as his own. He calls her Star. Their idyllic life is disrupted when a strict social worker discovers the situation and attempts to remove the girl to place her in a proper orphanage, forcing the old captain to fight for custody of his beloved child.
Details
- Director
- David Butler
- Writers
- Gladys Lehman, Harry Tugend, Laura E. Richards, Sam Hellman
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 17 April 1936
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Rated
- G
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