Captain Boycott (film)
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| Directed by | Frank Launder |
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| Music by | William Alwyn |
Production company | Individual Pictures |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 92 mins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £250,000 (US$1 million) |
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. Ironically, the titular character plays a secondary role in the film, as an anti-hero, and the hero of the film is Hugh Davin.