Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1947-08-26) |
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| Awards: | 1 win total |
| Screen: | Frank Launder, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Paul Vincent Carroll |
| Productions: | Individual Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Organisation |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
Posters
Recommendations
Casts
- 41235: Stewart Granger - Hugh Davin
- 98152: Kathleen Ryan - Anne Killain
- 14300: Cecil Parker - Capt. Charles C. Boycott
- 90643: Mervyn Johns - Watty Connell
- 20394: Alastair Sim - Father McKeogh
- 33090: Noel Purcell - Daniel McGinty
- 93163: Niall MacGinnis - Mark Killain
Crews
- 14293: Frank Launder - Director - Directing
- 14293: Frank Launder - Writer - Writing
- 49289: Wolfgang Wilhelm - Writer - Writing
- 1295849: Philip Rooney - Novel - Writing
- 35839: Thelma Connell - Editor - Editing
- 1089168: Edward Carrick - Art Direction - Art
- 20397: Wilkie Cooper - Director of Photography - Camera
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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 - a ....
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