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Hobson's Choice

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Calorie Rating: 150
Released: 1954-04-19
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Studios: London Films Productions, British Lion Films,


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.

Director / Directors

David Lean
Director
Adrian Pryce-Jones
Assistant Director



Cast

Charles Laughton
Character: Henry Horatio Hobson
John Mills
Character: William Mossop
Brenda De Banzie
Character: Maggie Hobson

Daphne Anderson
Character: Alice Hobson
Prunella Scales
Character: Vicky Hobson
Richard Wattis
Character: Albert Prosser

Derek Blomfield
Character: Freddy Beenstock
Helen Haye
Character: Mrs. Hepworth
Joseph Tomelty
Character: Jim Heeler

Julien Mitchell
Character: Sam Minns
Gibb McLaughlin
Character: Tudsbury
Philip Stainton
Character: Denton

Dorothy Gordon
Character: Ada Figgins
Madge Brindley
Character: Mrs. Figgins
John Laurie
Character: Dr. McFarlane

Raymond Huntley
Character: Nathaniel Beenstock
Jack Howarth
Character: Tubby Wadlow
Herbert C. Walton
Character: Printer

Edie Martin
Character: Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited)
Leonard Sharp
Character: Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)
Robert Brooks Turner
Character: Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited)


Production and Crew

David Lean
Screenplay
Wynyard Browne
Screenplay
Harold Brighouse
Theatre Play

David Lean
Producer
Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography

Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction
John Armstrong
Costume Design

George Partleton
Makeup Artist
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Artist
John Palmer
Production Manager

Norman Spencer
Associate Producer
Norman Spencer
Screenplay
Ken Ritchie
Boom Operator

Margaret Townsend
Production Secretary
Ray Hearne
Still Photographer
Muir Mathieson
Music Director

Julia Squire
Costume Supervisor
Peter Newbrook
Camera Operator
John Cox
Sound Supervisor

Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist
Red Law
Sound Recordist
William Hutchinson
Assistant Art Director

Gladys Atkinson
Hairdresser
Alan Hall
Clapper Loader