Captain Boycott
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $1,000,000
- Production
- Individual Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
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Cast
Stewart Granger
Hugh Davin
Kathleen Ryan
Anne Killain
Cecil Parker
Capt. Charles C. Boycott
Mervyn Johns
Watty Connell
Alastair Sim
Father McKeogh
Noel Purcell
Daniel McGinty
Niall MacGinnis
Mark Killain
Maureen Delaney
Mrs. Davin
Eddie Byrne
Sean Kerin
Liam Gaffney
Michael Fagan
Liam Redmond
Martin Egan
Robert Donat
Charles Stewart Parnell
Bernadette O'Farrell
Mrs. Fagan
Maurice Denham
Lt. Col. Strickland
Ian Fleming
Times correspondent
Reginald Purdell
American reporter
John Kelly
Sheriff
Michael Ripper
Pat Nolan
Michael Brennan
Jim O'Rourke (uncredited)
James Hayter
Music Hall Comic (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Frank Launder
- Writers
- Frank Launder,Wolfgang Wilhelm
- Producers
- Sidney Gilliat,Frank Launder
- Cinematography
- Wilkie Cooper
- Composer
- William Alwyn
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CinemaSerf
July 7, 2022
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 Granger ("Hugh") encourages his colleagues to down-tools and stop collecting the crops, stop paying the exorbitant rents - and to shun anyone who is prepared to co-operate with this horrendously arbitra…