Hobson's choice.

L: Limited Access CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate D: 1600'(16/8/9.5mm) 16mm Black & White Sound David Lean Director: David Lean United Artists Corporation

Willie Mossop (John Mills) is a gifted but unappreciated bootmaker employed by the tyrannical Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) in his moderately upmarket shop in 1880s Salford in Lancashire. Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) and her younger sisters Alice (Daphne Anderson) and Vicky (Prunella Scales) are eager to be married and free of the shop. Maggie bullies the browbeaten, unambitious Willie into an engagement. When Hobson objects to her choice of his own lowly employee as husband, Maggie announces that she and Willie

Credits

Cast
Charles Laughton, Brenda De Banzie
Complete catalog record
HOBSON’S CHOICE. London Films. Released in the U. S. by United Artists Corp. 107 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the comedy of the same title by Harold Brighouse. © British Lion Film Corp., Ltd.; 18Jun54 in notice: 1953); LP3876.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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  2. Wikidata · Q1613944 ↗ — country