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Hobson's Choice
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.
Hobson's Choice
April 19, 1954
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Cast (21)
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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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Julien Mitchell
Sam Minns
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Gibb McLaughlin
Tudsbury
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Philip Stainton
Denton
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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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Herbert C. Walton
Printer
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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)
Crew (30)
Directing
Writing
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David Lean
Screenplay
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Wynyard Browne
Screenplay
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Harold Brighouse
Theatre Play
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Norman Spencer
Screenplay
Production
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David Lean
Producer
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Norman Spencer
Associate Producer
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Margaret Townsend
Production Secretary
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John Palmer
Production Manager
Sound
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Muir Mathieson
Music Director
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Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
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Red Law
Sound Recordist
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Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist
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John Cox
Sound Supervisor
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Barbara Hopkins
Sound
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Ken Ritchie
Boom Operator
Art
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William Hutchinson
Assistant Art Director
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Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction
Camera
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Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
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Peter Newbrook
Camera Operator
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Ray Hearne
Still Photographer
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Alan Hall
Clapper Loader
Costume & Make-Up
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Tony Sforzini
Makeup Artist
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George Partleton
Makeup Artist
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Gladys Atkinson
Hairdresser
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Julia Squire
Costume Supervisor
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John Armstrong
Costume Design
Crew
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Peter Taylor
Editor