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Captain Boycott

In 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights, patriotic farmer Hugh Davin leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracise their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.

Release

26/08/1947

Rating

7.2/10

Runtime

93 min

Status

Released

Budget

$1,000,000

Language

English

Genres

Production

Individual PicturesJ. Arthur Rank Organisation

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Cast & Crew

Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger

Kathleen Ryan

Cecil Parker

Capt. Charles C. Boycott

Mervyn Johns

Alastair Sim

Noel Purcell

Niall MacGinnis

Niall MacGinnis

Maureen Delaney

Maureen Delaney

Eddie Byrne

Liam Gaffney

Liam Redmond

Robert Donat

Charles Stewart Parnell

Maurice Denham

Lt. Col. Strickland

Ian Fleming

Times correspondent

Reginald Purdell

Reginald Purdell

American reporter

John Kelly

Michael Ripper

Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan

Jim O'Rourke (uncredited)

James Hayter

Music Hall Comic (uncredited)

Desmond Llewelyn

Desmond Llewelyn

Gentleman on Train (uncredited)

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Geronimo1967

Geronimo1967Jul 7, 2022

6/10

This is quite interesting if only for an etymology lesson in the origins of the word "boycott". Cecil Parker is the eponymous gentleman who stokes the hatred of his Irish Tenant farmers in the late 1800s. Charles Parnell (Robert Donat) preaches a more pacifist approach ...