Hobson's Choice (1920)
1h 20m
Running Time
March 16, 1920Release Date
Plot.
A tyrannical bootmaker's daughter weds his meek assistant.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Arthur Pitt
Henry Horatio Hobson
Joan Ritz
Maggie Hobson
Phyllis Birkett
Alice Hobson
George Wynn
Albert Prosser
Joan Cockram
Vickey Hobson
Percy Nash
Director
Charles Heslop
Fred Beenstock
Harold Brighouse
Writer
Ada King
Mrs. Hepworth
W. Courtney Rowden
Writer
Mary Byron
Ada Figgins
Sidney Eaton
Cinematographer
Louis Rihll
Jim Heeler
Charles Stone
Tubby Wadlow
Joe Nightingale
William Mossup
Judd Green
Landlord
Details.
Wiki.
Hobson's Choice is a 1920 British comedy drama film directed by Percy Nash and starring Joe Nightingale, Joan Ritz and Arthur Pitt. A Salford bootmaker is irritated to learn his daughter is to marry one of his cobblers, and his outrage grows when they set up a successful shop which challenges his own for business. It is the first film based on the 1915 play Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse.