Captain January
About Captain January
In a storm, lighthouse keeper Jeremiah Judkins finds a baby girl tied to wreckage. He raises her and calls her Captain January. Her family, the Mortons, finds her and takes her. Judkins is then given work on the family's yacht, so he can still see her. Baby Peggy plays January. Hobart Bosworth plays Judkins. Irene Rich plays Isabelle Morton.
Cast & crew
More about Captain January
Edward F. Cline directed. Sol Lesser produced. Eve Unsell adapted Laura E. Richards's 1890 book. Released July 6, 1924. The listed length is 64 minutes. The first film of the book. A 1936 version stars Shirley Temple. Lincoln Stedman and Harry T. Morey are billed. Baby Peggy later took the name Diana Serra Cary.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- It is a Principal Pictures release, not a Universal picture.
- The yacht job is how Judkins stays near her.
- Richards's book is 1890.
- Cary is the same child player.
Scenes
- Judkins cuts the child off the wreckage.
- He goes to work on the Morton yacht so the visits can continue.
Influenced by
- Laura E. Richards's Captain January (1890)
