Captain Boycott.

Duration: 92 min.

Genre: historical

Year Published: 1947

Creator: Frank Launder

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan

Description: An historical drama about a group of stubborn Irish peasants whose passive resistance reduces Captain Boycott, a tyrannical land-agent, to financial ruin. Setting, County Mayo, in the troubled 1880's. During the period of Irish history known as the Land War, Irish tenant farmers were being squeezed dry by absentee English landlords. Some resorted to the gun to achieve justice, but others, inspired by the Irish statesman Charles Stewart Parnell, shunned violence and adopted a form of passive resistance. The farmers are led by Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger), who, with the help of the local priest, Father McKeogh (Alastair Sim), encourages his fellow tenants to ostracize their land agent, the bombastic Captain Boycott (Cecil Parker)

Complete Record: CAPTAIN BOYCOTT. Individual Pictures, Ltd., London. Released in the U.S. by Universal-International, c1947. Presented by J. Arthur Rank. 92 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the novel by Philip Rooney. Summary: An historical drama about a group of stubborn Irish peasants whose passive resistance reduces Captain Boycott, a tyrannical land-agent, to financial ruin. Setting, County Mayo, in the troubled 1880's. Credits: Producers, Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat; director, Frank Launder; screenplay, Frank Launder, Wolfgang Wilhelm; music, William Alwyn; film editor, Thelma Myers. Cast: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Mervyn Johns, Alastair Sim, Robert Donat. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 11Dec47; LP2063.

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