Captain Boycott
1947 | 93m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | Frank Launder |
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| Writer: | Frank Launder, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Philip Rooney |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 26, 1947 |
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| Director: | Frank Launder |
| Writer: | Frank Launder, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Philip Rooney |
| Genres: | Drama, History |
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| Production Companies | Individual Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Organisation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Edward Lexy | Sgt. Dempsey |
| Robert Donat | Charles Stewart Parnell |
| Bernadette O'Farrell | Mrs. Fagan |
| Harry Webster | Robert Hogan |
| Eddie Golden | Harry Piggott |
| Harry Hutchinson | Shamus Moore |
| Maurice Denham | Lt. Col. Strickland |
| Phyllis Ryan | Bridget |
| Joe Linnane | Auctioneer |
| Ian Fleming | Times correspondent |
| Reginald Purdell | American reporter |
| Cavan Malone | Billy Killain |
| John Kelly | Sheriff |
| Anne Clery | Postmistress |
| Sheila Carty | Mary Creeg |
| Michael Ripper | Pat Nolan |
| Norrie Duff | Josie Egan |
| Harry A. Bailey | Bookmaker |
| Michael Brennan | Jim O'Rourke (uncredited) |
| Jimmy Charters | Pub Patron (uncredited) |
| Lyn Evans | Yokel on Haystack (uncredited) |
| James Hayter | Music Hall Comic (uncredited) |
| Cyril Kent | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| Desmond Llewelyn | Gentleman on Train (uncredited) |
| Jack May | Carriage Driver (uncredited) |
| Kathleen Murphy | Fortune Teller (uncredited) |
| Pete Murray | Young Officer (uncredited) |
| Johnnie Schofield | British Soldier in Bar (uncredited) |
| Bill Shine | Press Photographer |
| Thorley Walters | Army Officer (uncredited) |
| Jim Winters | Man at Bogside (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Frank Launder | Writer, Director |
| Oswald Morris | Camera Operator |
| Wolfgang Wilhelm | Writer |
| Edward Carrick | Art Direction |
| Stuart Freeborn | Makeup Artist |
| Charles Crafford | Sound Editor |
| Leslie Gilliat | Location Manager |
| Norah Walsh | Assistant Editor |
| William Alwyn | Original Music Composer |
| Sophie Devine | Costume Design |
| John Gudenian | Costume Design |
| Betty Baugh | Hairstylist |
| E.M. Smedley-Aston | Production Manager |
| Cecil R. Foster Kemp | Second Unit Director |
| Percy Hermes | Assistant Director |
| William Hutchinson | Assistant Art Director |
| Charles Knott | Sound Recordist |
| Arthur Southgate | Sound Editor |
| Bill Allan | Camera Operator |
| Muir Mathieson | Music Director |
| Paddy Arnold | Continuity |
| Philip Rooney | Novel |
| Thelma Connell | Editor |
| Wilkie Cooper | Director of Photography |
| Max Rosher | Still Photographer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Frank Launder | Producer |
| Sidney Gilliat | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
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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 - and so Stewart Gr ... anger ("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 essentially just a vehicle for Granger - his dashing good looks and on-screen charisma shine, as do Parker as the pompous Captain; Mervyn Johns as his really quite weaselly acolyte and Alastair Sim is engaging as the not-so-neutral priest "McKeogh"; but the dialogue is pretty wooden (the star's accent seems a bit confused) and the story of grit and determination lacks any substantial portrayal of either, really. Certainly, it passes 90 minutes easily enough, but maybe just a bit too light and fluffy for the subject matter...