Hobson's Choice

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-04-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (4207 Reviews)

Director:

David Lean

Genres:

Comedy Drama Romance

Cast:

Charles Laughton John Mills Brenda de Banzie Daphne Anderson

Writer:

Harold Brighouse (by)

David Lean (screenplay)

Norman Spencer (screenplay)

Wynyard Browne (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Henry Hobson runs a successful bootmaker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three unruly daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to avoid the expensive matter of settlements, eldest daughter Maggie rebels and sets her sights on Will Mossop, Hobson's star bootmaker. Maggie and Will leave to start up in competition, and she then turns her mind to helping her sisters marry their chosen partners.

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