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Play Time: 93 mins
Drama, History
Captain Boycott

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)
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
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CinemaSerf

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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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