Hobson's Choice

Hobson's Choice

107 mins | Drama, Comedy | April 19, 1954

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

107 mins | Drama, Comedy | April 19, 1954

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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers British Lion Films, London Film Productions
Original title Hobson's Choice
Directors Maggie Unsworth, Adrian Pryce-Jones, David Lean
Writers Norman Spencer, Harold Brighouse, Wynyard Browne, David Lean

Cast

Charles Laughton

as Henry Horatio Hobson

John Mills

as William Mossop

Brenda De Banzie

as Maggie Hobson

Daphne Anderson

as Alice Hobson

Joseph Tomelty

as Jim Heeler

Richard Wattis

as Albert Prosser

Prunella Scales

as Vicky Hobson

Derek Blomfield

as Freddy Beenstock

Helen Haye

as Mrs. Hepworth

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

Leonard Sharp

as Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop

Robert Brooks Turner

as Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar