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)
Charles Laughton
Henry Horatio Hobson
John Mills
William Mossop
Brenda De Banzie
Maggie Hobson
Daphne Anderson
Alice Hobson
Prunella Scales
Vicky Hobson
Richard Wattis
Albert Prosser
Derek Blomfield
Freddy Beenstock
Helen Haye
Mrs. Hepworth
Joseph Tomelty
Jim Heeler
Julien Mitchell
Sam Minns
Gibb McLaughlin
Tudsbury
Philip Stainton
Denton
Dorothy Gordon
Ada Figgins
Madge Brindley
Mrs. Figgins
John Laurie
Dr. McFarlane
Raymond Huntley
Nathaniel Beenstock
Jack Howarth
Tubby Wadlow
Herbert C. Walton
Printer
Edie Martin
Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited)
Leonard Sharp
Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)
Robert Brooks Turner
Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited)
Crew (30)
Directing
Writing
David Lean
Screenplay
Wynyard Browne
Screenplay
Harold Brighouse
Theatre Play
Norman Spencer
Screenplay
Production
David Lean
Producer
Norman Spencer
Associate Producer
Margaret Townsend
Production Secretary
John Palmer
Production Manager
Sound
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Red Law
Sound Recordist
Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist
John Cox
Sound Supervisor
Ken Ritchie
Boom Operator
Barbara Hopkins
Sound
Art
William Hutchinson
Assistant Art Director
Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction
Camera
Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
Peter Newbrook
Camera Operator
Alan Hall
Clapper Loader
Ray Hearne
Still Photographer
Costume & Make-Up
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Artist
Gladys Atkinson
Hairdresser
Julia Squire
Costume Supervisor
George Partleton
Makeup Artist
John Armstrong
Costume Design
Crew
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Peter Taylor
Editor