| Release Date: | Apr 1954 |
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| Genres: | Comedy / Drama / Romance |
| Awards: | Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 4 nominations |
| Runtime: | 107 min |
| 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) Raymond Huntley (Nathaniel Beenstock) Jack Howarth (Tubby Wadlow) Herbert C. Walton (Printer) Shirley Stelfox ((unconfirmed)) Edie Martin (Old lady buying shoelaces (uncredited)) |
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.
