Captain Caution is a 1940 American adventure film directed by Richard Wallace set during the War of 1812.

[2] The film stars Victor Mature, Bruce Cabot and Alan Ladd.

Elmer Raguse was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording.

(The others were The Housekeeper's Daughter, One Million Years BC, Of Mice and Men and a novel by Thorne Smith.

[11] The anti-British tone of the novel was softened and the script rewritten by producer Grover Jones, who said "in the main we won't be giving them much time to think about whether they like the theme of the picture or not.