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Hobson's Choice
(1954)
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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.
name
character
Daphne Anderson
Alice Hobson
Brenda De Banzie
Maggie Hobson
Derek Blomfield
Freddy Beenstock
Madge Brindley
Mrs. Figgins
Dorothy Gordon
Ada Figgins
Helen Haye
Mrs. Hepworth
Jack Howarth
Tubby Wadlow
Raymond Huntley
Nathaniel Beenstock
Charles Laughton
Henry Horatio Hobson
John Laurie
Dr. McFarlane
Gibb McLaughlin
Tudsbury
John Mills
William Mossop
Julien Mitchell
Sam Minns
Prunella Scales
Vicky Hobson
Philip Stainton
Denton
Joseph Tomelty
Jim Heeler
Herbert C. Walton
Printer
Richard Wattis
Albert Prosser
name
Malcolm Arnold
composer
Harold Brighouse
writer (original)
Wynyard Browne
screenplay
David Lean
director, screenplay, producer
Norman Spencer
screenplay
award
category
name
year
BAFTA
Best British Film
1954
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