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"A tyrannical bootshop owner in Victorian London with three unmarried daughters tries to control their lives and marriages while they have different ideas."@en
"In the 1890's a tyrannical Lancashire bootmaker is brought to heel by his plain-speaking daughter and her simple-minded husband."@en
"As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton molds a comical drunk of Falstaffian proportions. When Hobson forbids his daughters to marry, his eldest daughter defiantly sets her cap for the shop's best bootmaker. Matching Laughton's ferocity, Brenda de Banzie's Maggie hounds the flabbergasted Willie into marriage and a thriving business. As Willie, John Mills performs a gradual metamorphosis from painfully awkward to gently confident. Together, the sweet couple turn a crafty business deal onto a loving partnership."@en
""Henry Hobson runs a successful bootmaker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to rule the lives of his three unruly daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to avoid the expensive matter of settlements, eldest daughter Maggie rebels and sets her sights on Will Mossop, Hobson's star bootmaker. Maggie and Will leave to start up in competition, and she then turns her mind to helping her sisters marry their chosen partners"--Internet movie database summary by Jeremy Perkins, as viewed on April 24, 2006."@en
"Charles Laughton gives a tour de force performance as Hobson the tyrannical widower with a fondness for alcohol. Brenda de Banzie plays the strong-minded Maggie, the plain but clever eldest daughter, who, her sisters assume, will conveniently stay unmarried and look after her father, and his shop. Maggie, however, has a different future in mind for herself and announces her intention to marry Willie Mossop, much to the consternation of all concerned, including the prospective bridegroom."@en
""A prosperous businessman in the 1890's tries to keep his daughter from marrying, but the strong-willed daughter has other ideas"--Video Source Book."
"An unsung comic triumph from David Lean, Hobson's choice stars the legendary Charles Laughton as the harrumphing Henry Hobson, the owner of a boot shop in late Victorian northern England. With his haughty, independent daughter Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) decides to forge her own path, romantically and professionally, with none other than Henry's prized bootsmith Will (a splendid John Mills), father and daughter find themselves head-to-head in a fiery match of wills. Equally charming and caustic,Hobson's choice, adapted from Harold Brighouse's famous play, is filled to the brim with great performances and elegant, inventive camera work."@en
"Three-act story ballet set in Salford, a town in northern England, in 1880. The choreography includes clog dancing by Michael O'Hare in the role of Will Mossop."@en
"An unsung comic triumph from David Lean, Hobson's Choice stars the legendary Charles Laughton as the harrumphing Henry Hobson, the owner of a boot shop in late Victorian northern England. With his haughty, independent daughter Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) decides to forge her own path, romantically and professionally, with none other than Henry's prized bootsmith Will (a splendid John Mills), father and daughter find themselves head-to-head in a fiery match of wills. Equally charming and caustic, Hobson's Choice, adapted from Harold Brighouse's famous play, is filled to the brim with great performances and elegant, inventive camera work."@en
"A tyrannical 1890's bootmaker is put in his place by his daughter and her husband."@en
"An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong eldest daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life."@en
"In the 1890's, a tyrannical Lancashire bootmaker is brought to heel by his plain-speaking daughter and her simple-minded husband."@en
"Henry Horatio Hobson is a tyrannical bootmaker at the turn of the century in Salford, England, who tries to keep his three daughters working for at low wages at his shop, despite the fact that they are of marriageable age."@en
"As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton plays a comical drunk of Falstaffian proportions. When Hobson forbids his daughters to marry, his eldest daughter defiantly sets her cap for the shop's best bootmaker. Matching Laughton's ferocity, Brenda de Banzie's Maggie hounds the flabbergasted Willie into marriage and a thriving business. As Willie, John Mills performs a gradual metamorphosis from painfully awkward to gently confident. Together, the sweet couple turn a crafty business deal onto a loving partnership."@en
"In the city of Manchester, the eldest daughter of a shopkeeper decides that her best avenue to independence is to marry the young boot maker who works in the shop's basement. Based on Harold Brighouse's 1915 play, this tempest in a teacup revolves around the conflict between an unyielding family patriarch played by Charles Laughton and his eldest daughter determined to free herself from his tyrannical whims. The inflexible patriarch lords it over his three daughters by day and stumbles intoxicated through the streets of Manchester at night. By the end of the film the oldest daughter has become the successful manager of the family business and the insufferable father is reduced to an alcoholic invalid. The British director David Lean adapted a number of plays and novels to the screen including Oliver Twist and Great Expectations."@en