Captain Boycott (1947)

Name: Captain Boycott
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1947-08-26
Duration: 93 min
Cast: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Mervyn Johns, Alastair Sim

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.

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Released 1947-08-26 · 93 min · Drama, History

Directed by Frank Launder

Cast

Stewart Granger as Hugh Davin
Kathleen Ryan as Anne Killain
Cecil Parker as Capt. Charles C. Boycott
Mervyn Johns as Watty Connell
Alastair Sim as Father McKeogh
Noel Purcell as Daniel McGinty
Niall MacGinnis as Mark Killain
Maureen Delaney as Mrs. Davin
Eddie Byrne as Sean Kerin
Liam Gaffney as Michael Fagan
Liam Redmond as Martin Egan
Edward Lexy as Sgt. Dempsey
Robert Donat as Charles Stewart Parnell
Bernadette O'Farrell as Mrs. Fagan
Harry Webster as Robert Hogan