Hobson's Choice

An expository scene featuring drinking pals and daughters Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), Alice (Daphne Anderson), and Vicky (Prunella Scales), in the shoe shop run by the title character (Charles Laughton) in Hobson's Choice, 1954.

From darkness to broad comedy, the opening scene of Hobson's Choice, 1954, in which shoemaker Charles Laughton (title character) disrespects impassive daughter Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), directed by David Lean.

Widower, merchant and father Henry (Charles Laughton) is dominating his daughters (Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales) when customer Mrs. Hepworth (Helen Haye) insists on meeting cobbler Willie (John Mills) in David Lean's Hobson's Choice, 1954.