YMMV / Captains Courageous

• Genius Bonus:
  • In the novel, it's mentioned that the We're Here's black cook is fluent in Gaelic. The implication is that he's descended from freed or escaped slaves who managed to make it to Canada.
  • In many cultures (German, Brazilian, Chinese, Korean, Arabic), giving a knife as a gift is widely considered bad luck. Dan would have been better off if he'd known this, because...
• Nightmare Fuel: Dan buys a belt and knife, as a gift for Harvey, that had belonged to a sailor from another ship, who had died and been buried at sea. Shortly afterwards, the boys are out fishing and haul up the man's body (which Kipling happily tells us no longer has a face). Harvey throws the knife into the water and Dan cuts the line. Upon hearing the story when they returned to the ship, its cook performs a special ritual to ensure that the body stays submerged.

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