Hobson's Choice (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 17, 2009
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Charles Laughton & Brenda de Banzie | |
| Performer: | John Mills & Prunella Scales | |
| Directed by | David Lean |
Entertainment Reviews:
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...A character study of considerable charm and humour....The real pleasure is watching three consummate actors relishing the quality script...
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
A delightful and rewarding British film.
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New York Times
...shrewd and jolly British comedy.
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Maclean's Magazine
Hobson's Choice is a cheerful little slice of death, warmed over and served with some lively comic sauces by Producer-Director David Lean and Actor Charles Laughton.
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TIME Magazine
Although Laughton richly overplays every major scene, his performance remains one of the film's highlights.
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Variety
Rating: 5/10 --
If your drunken buffoon tolerance is higher than mine, you will probably be more kindly disposed towards the film.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 4/4 --
Lean's splendid frames specifically work to show the high and low status of a social grid.
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Slant Magazine
Product Description:
A dominating and aged spinster latches herself onto a shy young man and literally drags him to the altar. Laughton shines in his role as her oft-inebriated father. New digital transfer available from "Home."
Description by Image Entertainment:
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 the help of 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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 22,914
- UPC: 715515042116
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