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Captain Boycott (1947)

Captain Boycott (1947)

Drama History
Release Date: 1947, August 26
Directors: Frank Launder
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Individual Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Cast: Ian Fleming, Eddie Byrne, Harry Hutchinson, Desmond Llewelyn, Michael Brennan, James Hayter, Harry A. Bailey, Liam Redmond, Jimmy Charters, Maurice Denham, John Kelly, Niall MacGinnis

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.