Captain Boycott.

Duration: 92 min.

Year Published: 1947

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

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.

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.