Hobson's Choice
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- Runtime
- 107 mins
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
Cast
- Charles Laughton
- John Mills
- Brenda De Banzie
- Daphne Anderson
- Prunella Scales
- Richard Wattis
- Derek Blomfield
- Helen Haye
- Joseph Tomelty
- Julien Mitchell
- Gibb McLaughlin
- Philip Stainton
- Dorothy Gordon
- Madge Brindley
- John Laurie
- Raymond Huntley
- Jack Howarth
- Herbert C. Walton
- Edie Martin
- Leonard Sharp
- Robert Brooks Turner
Director
- David Lean
Producers
- David Lean
Screenwriter
- Wynyard Browne
- David Lean
- Norman Spencer
