Captains Courageous
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Harvey: Gosh, can I take him off the hook?
Manuel Fidello: We got not time for that. We don't know these fish personal.

Manuel Fidello: I think you put hooks in yourself, so you got chance to drink more rum, huh?

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.

Captain Disko Troop: I suppose you deny I showed you the road to this spot a year ago this very day! Ya cross-eyed mackerel.

Manuel Fidello: What's the matter, little fish? You sleepy?
Harvey: I-I'm so ashamed, Manuel.
Manuel Fidello: Sure. We all got to be ashamed once. So we don't do things again when we got be ashamed of, see?

Manuel Fidello: Nothing going on, here, now. That fish he have meeting down below. He tell all other fish there's something not so funny going on.

Harvey: Do you think they really fish in heaven?
Manuel Fidello: Well, sure they fish in heaven. What else they do?

Manuel Fidello: Oh, Long Jack, what are you worry about? He admit the whole thing, like regular grown fella. He say he sorry. Everything all right now.
'Long Jack': Nothing's all right till I beat his ears off! Get outta my way.
Manuel Fidello: You touch that kid, I tear you apart, see! Manuel talking, I tear you apart, see! So don't get me mad, Long Jack. I get all crazy and sick inside.

Question: The crew of the fishing schooner visits several places on the Grand Banks off the island of Newfoundland. One is an actual fishing location named "The Virgin Rocks." The boat's arrival there is announced by one of the characters, accompanied by location footage. Is the location in the footage actually the Virgin Rocks?

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