Hobson's Choice

Having watched the Film ‘excellent British film ‘Hobson’s Choice’ once again with very good acting
I would love to find a Willy Mossop like Maggie did and educate him and mould him into a confident and successful businessman.
Even in that era Maggie finally stood up to her drunken father, Henry Hobson, Bootmaker. [Charles Laughton]] who like his liquor.

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I watched that again yesterday too, I also recorded it a while ago. A film that I never get tired of watching - superb acting by all throughout. I especially like the part where Hobson is conned out of £500 to pay an insurance claim only to realise that the money is going to be used as a dowry for his two remaining daughters which he previously stated he would never do. Out manoeuvred by his eldest daughter Maggie. Excellent stuff

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Lovely film Judd, and filmed in Old Salford Manchester as well, so true to life as it then was.
Charles Laughton was brilliant.

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A great old film I haven't seen it for years...

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I love that film!

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A woman did this in my family, much to the outrage of her parents. She was a teacher in the late 1800's and she married a miner, which was considered to be marrying quite beneath her. They were snobby in those days! She taught him how to read and write and he became a fairly well-off businessman in later years. She was quite a woman by all accounts!

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I love these old films, and have not seen that one for donkeys. Had the lovely Prunella Scales in it as well.