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Hobson's Choice

7.4 107 mins Comedy   Drama   1954
London Films Productions   British Lion Films  
Director(s): David Lean

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.

Casts of Hobson's Choice

Charles Laughton

as Henry Horatio Hobson

John Mills

as William Mossop

Brenda De Banzie

as Maggie Hobson

Daphne Anderson

as Alice Hobson

Prunella Scales

as Vicky Hobson

Richard Wattis

as Albert Prosser

Derek Blomfield

as Freddy Beenstock

Helen Haye

as Mrs. Hepworth

Joseph Tomelty

as Jim Heeler

Julien Mitchell

as Sam Minns

Gibb McLaughlin

as Tudsbury

Philip Stainton

as Denton

Dorothy Gordon

as Ada Figgins

Madge Brindley

as Mrs. Figgins

John Laurie

as Dr. McFarlane

Raymond Huntley

as Nathaniel Beenstock

Jack Howarth

as Tubby Wadlow

Herbert C. Walton

as Printer

Edie Martin

as Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited)

Leonard Sharp

as Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)

Robert Brooks Turner

as Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited)

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