[stumpy]

Also, I forget the name, but Sp[encer Tracy played a Portugese fisherman, with Rodney McDowel in it.

[duvausa]

I think you mean Captians Courageous--really good one.

A couple my kids liked:

Cloak and Dagger (a little scary in parts, but my kids could handle it from about age five)

Bugsy Malone (the guns shoot whipped cream)

[Non-Sequitur]

It was 'Captains Courageous' but it was with Freddy Bartholomew, not Roddy McDowell. Lionel Barrymore played the captain and Mickey Rooney played his son.