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Captain Boycott( 1947)

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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.

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      Stewart Granger

      Hugh Davin

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      Kathleen Ryan

      Anne Killain

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      Cecil Parker

      Capt. Charles C. Boycott

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      Mervyn Johns

      Watty Connell

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      Alastair Sim

      Father McKeogh

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      Noel Purcell

      Daniel McGinty

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      Niall MacGinnis

      Mark Killain

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      Maureen Delaney

      Mrs. Davin

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      Eddie Byrne

      Sean Kerin

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      Liam Gaffney

      Michael Fagan

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      Liam Redmond

      Martin Egan

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      Edward Lexy

      Sgt. Dempsey

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      Robert Donat

      Charles Stewart Parnell

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      Bernadette O'Farrell

      Mrs. Fagan

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      Harry Webster

      Robert Hogan

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      Eddie Golden

      Harry Piggott

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      Harry Hutchinson

      Shamus Moore

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      Maurice Denham

      Lt. Col. Strickland

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      Phyllis Ryan

      Bridget

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      Joe Linnane

      Auctioneer

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      Ian Fleming

      Times correspondent

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      Reginald Purdell

      American reporter

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      Cavan Malone

      Billy Killain

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      John Kelly

      Sheriff

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      Anne Clery

      Postmistress

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      Sheila Carty

      Mary Creeg

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      Michael Ripper

      Pat Nolan

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      Norrie Duff

      Josie Egan

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      Harry A. Bailey

      Bookmaker

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      Michael Brennan

      Jim O'Rourke (uncredited)

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      Jimmy Charters

      Pub Patron (uncredited)

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      Lyn Evans

      Yokel on Haystack (uncredited)

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      James Hayter

      Music Hall Comic (uncredited)

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      Cyril Kent

      Party Guest (uncredited)

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      Desmond Llewelyn

      Gentleman on Train (uncredited)

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      Jack May

      Carriage Driver (uncredited)

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      Kathleen Murphy

      Fortune Teller (uncredited)

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      Pete Murray

      Young Officer (uncredited)

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      Johnnie Schofield

      British Soldier in Bar (uncredited)

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      Bill Shine

      Press Photographer

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      Thorley Walters

      Army Officer (uncredited)

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      Jim Winters

      Man at Bogside (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Jul 07 2022
    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 Granger ("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 soo...

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    Released

    Original Language

    English

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