Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott (1947)

Irland 1880: Mit horrenden Pachtforderungen bringt ein Landbesitzer die armen Bauern gegen sich auf. Eine zusätzliche Mißernte treibt ihn in den Ruin.

Erscheinungsdatum
1947-08-26
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (10)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 33 Min.
Genres
Drama, Historie
Regie
Frank Launder

Besetzung

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  • Gedreht in: Pinewood Studios

Captain Boycott is a 1947 British historical drama film directed by Frank Launder and starring Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Mervyn Johns, Alastair Sim and Cecil Parker. Robert Donat makes a cameo appearance as the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell. The film explains how the word boycott appeared in the English language. The titular character plays a secondary role in the film, as an anti-hero, and the hero of the film is Hugh Davin.

Production

During shooting of this film in 1946, Bernard Cardinal Griffin, the then Archbishop of Westminster, paid an official visit to the set, during which he met the film's two stars Kathleen Ryan and Stewart Granger. The event was filmed for newsreel.

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