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Hobson's Choice

73.58 %|Apr 19, 1954|Comedy, Drama

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.

Featured Crew

David Lean
Director
David Lean
Screenplay
Wynyard Browne
Screenplay
Harold Brighouse
Theatre Play
David Lean
Producer
Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
Peter Taylor
Editor

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Cast

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Charles Laughton
Henry Horatio Hobson
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John Mills
William Mossop
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Brenda De Banzie
Maggie Hobson
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Daphne Anderson
Alice Hobson
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Prunella Scales
Vicky Hobson
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Richard Wattis
Albert Prosser
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Derek Blomfield
Freddy Beenstock
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Helen Haye
Mrs. Hepworth
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Joseph Tomelty
Jim Heeler
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Dorothy Gordon
Ada Figgins
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Madge Brindley
Mrs. Figgins
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John Laurie
Dr. McFarlane
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Raymond Huntley
Nathaniel Beenstock
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Jack Howarth
Tubby Wadlow
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Edie Martin
Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited)
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Leonard Sharp
Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)
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Robert Brooks Turner
Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited)