CAST:
Charles Laughton (Henry Hobson),
John Mills (William Mossop),
Brenda de Banzie (Maggie Hobson),
Daphne Anderson (Alice Hobson),
Prunella Scales (Vicky Hobson)

SCRIPT:
David Lean,
Wynyard Browne,
Norman Spencer (based on play by Harold Brighouse)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jack Hildyard

MUSIC:
Malcolm Arnold

EDITING:
Peter Taylor

Synopsis:
Each day shoemaker Henry Horatio Hobson bosses around his employees and his three daughters. At night, drunk, he roams the streets of London. Maggie, his oldest daughter, frees herself from his tyranny by marrying Will Mossop. Together they open up a competitive shoemaking store. After that she plans to help her other two sisters get rid of their tyrannical father and marry their sweethearts…This great comedy with style and zest achieved much success outside of Great Britain. In the year 1954 British Film Institute awarded this Lean’s film as the film of the year.

b/w, 108'