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Hobson's Choice

1954, Movie, NR, 107 mins

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Laughton is marvelous in this wry comedy as the crusty old curmudgeon who rules his profitable boot shop and his three unmarried daughters with an iron hand. He hypocritically downs his pints of ale at the local pub and cries out against the inhumanity of life at leaving him a widower. His eldest daughter, de Banzie, is 30 and, in Laughton's words, "on the shelf." Undaunted, she finds herself a husband in the form of the self-effacing, illiterate, and ambitionless Mills, Lau... read more leave a comment
Year: 1954
Rated NR

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Cast
Charles Laughton: Henry Horatio Hobson
John Mills: Willie Mossop
Brenda de Banzie: Maggie Hobson
Daphne Anderson: Alice Hobson
Prunella Scales: Vicky Hobson
Richard Wattis: Albert Prosser

 

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