Hobson's Choice
A Masterpiece of Lusty, Gusty, Rowdy Entertainment
107 mins
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.
Madge Brindley
Mrs. Figgins
Jack Howarth
Tubby Wadlow
Herbert C. Walton
Printer
Leonard Sharp
Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)
Robert Brooks Turner
Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited)
Wynyard Browne
Screenplay
Harold Brighouse
Theatre Play
Peter Taylor
Editor
Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction
John Armstrong
Costume Design
George Partleton
Makeup Artist
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Artist
Adrian Pryce-Jones
Assistant Director
John Palmer
Production Manager
Norman Spencer
Associate Producer
Norman Spencer
Screenplay
Ken Ritchie
Boom Operator
Margaret Townsend
Production Secretary
Ray Hearne
Still Photographer
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Julia Squire
Costume Supervisor
Peter Newbrook
Camera Operator
John Cox
Sound Supervisor
Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist
Red Law
Sound Recordist
William Hutchinson
Assistant Art Director
Gladys Atkinson
Hairdresser
Maggie Unsworth
Continuity
Barbara Hopkins
Sound
Alan Hall
Clapper Loader