Drama · History
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.
Top 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
Directed by
Frank Launder
Production
Reviews
CinemaSerf
6/107/7/2022
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 arbitrary system. Using his agent "Connell" (Mervyn Jones), the Captain has his farmers evicted and this soon leads to conflict between Granger and his love "Anne" (Kathleen Ryan) who has taken over one of the tenancies from an evicted family and earned the scorn of her neighbours... This story is essentia
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