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Captain Boycott

7.2(10)19471h 33m1

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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Status
Released
Budget
$1M
Box office
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Language
English

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical26 Aug 1947
  • XCXC

    • Theatrical4 Jun 1948

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Captain Boycott was released on 26 August 1947.

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    CinemaSerf

    7/7/2022

    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 -…

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