Captain Boycott

Movie

1947

1h 33m

Approved

English

Drama, History

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6.2

Captain Boycott

Approved

Movie

1947

1h 33m

English

Drama, History

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.

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Cast

Hugh Davin

Anne Killain

Capt. Charles C. Boycott

Watty Connell

Father McKeogh

Daniel McGinty

Mark Killain

Mrs. Davin

Sean Kerin

Michael Fagan

Martin Egan

Sgt. Dempsey

Charles Stewart Parnell

Mrs. Fagan

Robert Hogan

Harry Piggott

Shamus Moore

Lt. Col. Strickland

Bridget

Auctioneer

Times correspondent

American reporter

Billy Killain

Sheriff

Postmistress

Directed By: Frank Launder

Written By: Frank Launder, Wolfgang Wilhelm, + 1 more

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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

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 to protest - and so Stewart Gr More

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