Captains Courageous (1937)
Mickey Rooney: Dan
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Quotes
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Manuel Fidello : 15 years I've been fisherman, first time I catch fish like you.
[blows conch shell, and heads towards boat ringing bell]
Manuel Fidello : HEY, Aboard the vessel!
Captain Disko Troop : Hey!
Manuel Fidello : I bring you new kind of fish.
Captain Disko Troop : What'chu get?
Manuel Fidello : I got new kind of fish. He got no tail. He got pants on his dorsal fin. I think maybe he about 10 year old.
[pulls up next to schooner and start hauling up boy]
Dan Troop : Aw, its a kid ain't it?
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Dan Troop : Pop could find fish in a graveyard!
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Harvey : But, there's no fishing out there, is there?
Frank Burton Cheyne : The best trout fishing in the world! And if I do say it myself, I can teach you to cast a fly wherever you want to put one.
Dan Troop : I read about that kind of fishing, once, in a magazine. Manuel said that any fish that ate a bug was some kind of a frog.
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Dan Troop : Wait till you see some of the places we go.
Harvey : What places?
Dan Troop : Oh, Stone Fence, St. Pierre's Bank, Whale Deep, Virgin Rock. Pop gets a ride along with the fish. Folks say he thinks like a codfish.
Harvey : Well, if thinking like a codfish is going to get me where I want to get, I don't care how he thinks.