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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303038520
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6303038522
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: June 06, 2000
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 316
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: 1954
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David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap) is a comical drunk of Falstaffian proportions. When Hobson forbids his daughters to marry (their unpaid labor supports his pub visits!), his eldest daughter defiantly sets her cap for Willie, the shop's best bootmaker. Brenda de Banzie (The Man Who Knew Too Much), as the eldest daughter, hounds the flabbergasted Willie into marriage, resulting in a thriving new shop of their own. As Willie, John Mills (Great Expectations, The Big Sleep) performs a gradual metamorphoses from painfully awkward to gently confident. Together, the sweet couple turn a crafty business deal into a loving partnership.
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David Lean's finest films, from Great Expectations (1946) to Lawrence of Arabia (1962), are resolutely sober, which is more than can be said of Henry Horatio Hobson in his wonderfully comic encounter with the moon in Hobson's Choice (1954). Lean's only other comedy was Blithe Spirit (1945), but here he approaches matters of the heart with a surprising lightness of touch and wins a marvelous performance from Charles Laughton--himself soon to make his one and only film as a director, Night of the Hunter (1955). The setting is late-19th-century Salford, England (the black-and-white location filming is exceptional), and widower Henry Hobson forbids his three daughters to marry to avoid paying their dowries. Romance will not be thwarted by economics, and much humorous conflict ensues, interspersed with some serious and even disturbing moments. Brenda De Banzie is splendidly spirited as the eldest daughter, Maggie, while her fiancé is played by the ever excellent John Mills, who would later win an Oscar® for his part in Lean's much more serious love story, Ryan's Daughter (1970). --Gary S. Dalkin
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For those who didn't know, and I was one of them, a Hobson's choice is a free choice, but where only one option is really available. At the end of Hobson's Choice, a fine, vulgar, poignant and very funny film directed by David Lean, this is what Henry Horatio Hobson faces. Elements of the plot are discussed.
Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a prosperous shoe and boot merchant in the small town of Salford, England. The time is the 1880s. Hobson is a widower, a blusterer, a man accustomed ... Read More
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I feel myself very fortunate having been introduced to this film some 30 years ago. I am dying to see it again, but refuse to fork out $49 to see it in VHS. I would happily pay that price for a criterion DVD and would by another for my father who first showed me this film.
Laughton is absolutely outstanding in this film as is the rest of the cast. The script is as funny as anything I have seen. It is amazing that it is not on the American Film Institutes list of top 100 funniest ... Read More
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It is a rare film that allows a woman to be feminine and a 'hero'. This is it. Maggie (played by Brenda de Banzie) is unmarried and thirty in an era when young women were married by the age of eighteen. She runs her widower father's (hilariously played by Charles Laughton) shop until he begins to selfishly take advantage of his daughters' labour to live the life of a well-to-do bum. Allowing them to marry would mean that he would have to work hard at the business himself and hire extra employees ... Read More
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A wonderful movie in every way. Charles Laughton plays Henry Hobson, a vulgar old martinet and tippler, who runs a bootshop with his three unmarried daughters. The oldest, Maggie (played by Brenda de Banzie), decides to take matters into her own hands: she chooses the unpromising, lazy bootmaker (John Mills) for her husband (very much against her father's wishes) and they open up their own shop. She is smart and cunning and ambitious, and before long they are successful - so much so that by movie's ... Read More
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A rare gem of a film poignantly portrayed by a splendid cast. Though it, the Master, David Lean, tells the powerful, wonderful and timeless story of the profound difference a woman's "call" can make in her life, the life of her man, and the world. This is my wife's and my favorite film! Like fine wine, enjoy, be transformed, touched, inspired and moved to tears. Don't miss it and don't forget to share it with others!
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