If you can buy Spencer Tracy as a Portuguese fisherman, the film actually is a fairy good one. Spencer won his 2nd Oscar in as many years playing Manuel, the goodhearted soul eager to help out a young boy become a man. Kipling's novel truly comes to life in a great MGM production that sports many fine stalwarts from Lionel Barrymoore, Mickey Rooney, Melvyn Douglas and more. Spence should have had a better language coach,
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