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Post by Kaz ~;~ on Sept 3, 2011 11:35:41 GMT -5
[/size][/url][/center] Director: David Lean
Writers: Harold Brighouse (play)
David Lean (screenplay) ------------------------ Plot Summary:: 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. ---------------------- (Cast)
Charles Laughton ... Henry Horatio Hobson
John Mills ... Willie Mossop
Brenda De Banzie ... Maggie Hobson
Daphne Anderson ... Alice Hobson
Prunella Scales ... Vicky Hobson
Richard Wattis ... Albert Prosser
Derek Blomfield ... Freddy Beenstock
Helen Haye ... Mrs. Hepworth
Joseph Tomelty ... Jim Heeler
Julien Mitchell ... Sam Minns
Gibb McLaughlin ... Tudsbury
Philip Stainton ... Denton
Dorothy Gordon ... Ada Figgins
Madge Brindley ... Mrs. Figgins
John Laurie ... Dr. MacFarlane
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