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    Hobson's Choice 1954 POSTER

    Hobson's Choice

    1954

    English

    7.7

    14

    91%

    91%

    Action

    based on play or musical

    Comedy

    Drama

    drunk

    marriage

    marriage of convenience

    northern england

    parent child relationship

    Romance

    David Lean David Lean Director Shirley Stelfox Shirley Stelfox as Daphne Anderson Daphne Anderson as Alice Hobson Julien Mitchell Julien Mitchell as Sam Minns Prunella Scales Prunella Scales as Vicky Hobson
    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.
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