Captain Boycott

1947

1h 33m

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6.7/10

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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.

Directors

Frank Launder

Writers

Philip Rooney(novel by)

Frank Launder(writer by)

Wolfgang Wilhelm(writer by)

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Stewart Granger

Kathleen Ryan

Cecil Parker

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Stewart Granger

Hugh Davin

Kathleen Ryan

Anne Killain

Cecil Parker

Capt. Charles C. Boycott

Watty Connell

Father McKeogh

Daniel McGinty

Mark Killain

Mrs. Davin

Sean Kerin

Michael Fagan

Martin Egan

Sgt. Dempsey

Charles Stewart Parnell

Mrs. Fagan

Robert Hogan

Harry Piggott

Shamus Moore

Lt. Col. Strickland

Directors

Frank Launder

Writers

Philip Rooney(novel by)

Frank Launder(writer by)

Wolfgang Wilhelm(writer by)

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6/10

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 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...

Geronimo196707 Jul, 2022