For those who didn’t know, and I was one of them, a Hobson’s choice is a free choice, but where only one option is really available. At the waste of Hobson’s Choice, a ravishing, coarse, poignant and very comic film directed by David Lean, this is what Henry Horatio Hobson faces. Please tag that elements of the site are discussed.
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Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a prosperous shoe and boot merchant in the miniature town of Salford, England. The time is the 1880s. Hobson is a widower, a blusterer, a man accustomed to his comforts, his drink and his ease. He is, thanks to Laughton, larger than life, a man we can laugh at but not a man we’d probably want as a neighbor. He has three daughters. Maggie (Brenda De Banzie) is 30. She is, says her father, “a bit ripe” for marriage at her age, and he plans to preserve it that diagram. Maggie runs the store, keeps the books, sees to dinner and keeps the home above the store elegant. Henry Hobson, or course, doesn’t pay her wages because she is, after all, his daughter. His two younger daughters both have suitors, and that’s objective pretty with him until he realizes he must give them dowries if they are to marry. There’ll be no dowries from Henry Hobson.
And now we gaze Maggie near into her maintain. She is a humdrum woman with an iron will, a determination that recognizes no barriers, and a very shrewd mind. If she is ever to glean away from her father, she will have to accumulate a man to marry her. And now we meet Willie Mossop (John Mills), the shoe worker who makes the shoes in the dingy basement under the store. Willie is honest about illiterate, vexed to a fault, naive, stupid, unbiased and with very dirty hands. He is quite overjoyed to stop in the basement making shoes. In Willie Mossop, however, Maggie sees not unprejudiced speed from her father, but a man who makes valid shoes, and a man she could do into a success with his bear…their have…shop. She knows she can do this, and she’ll catch a method to salvage dowries from their father for her two sisters while she’s at it. It should arrive as no surprise that Maggie accomplishes all she sets out to do; that Willie becomes William Mossop whose shoes sell, who is endearing and just and who has a far better haircut after Maggie takes charge. While Henry Hobson roars about, deep in the drink, elephantine of self-pity and bluster (and as absorbing as only Charles Laughton could gain him), we choose abet and appreciate the seek of Maggie using her head, with energy and determination, to earn the better of her musty rogue of a father. Maggie not only finds Willie, but cherish, too. By the demolish of the movie, we’ve approach to know a satisfied and successful couple. William and Maggie have given Henry Hobson a choice he would be foolish to refuse.
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This is a vastly enchanting and satisfying movie, thanks to Lean, Laughton, Mills and, especially De Banzie. Laughton came to loath De Banzie during the filming, and the reason is as insensible as De Banzie’s monotonous but exquisite face. The movie ostensibly is a showcase for Laughton. He plays Hobson bolder than life, uncouth, squinting, staggering drunk, too knowing for his believe honorable…a man fat of faults and foibles we can laugh at more readily than laugh with. He has two major bits playing the drunk or hungover Hobson and he’s very gracious. There are two major sly and finagling scenes with him which are even better. But Brenda De Banzie, a well-behaved actor, steals the demonstrate. Unprejudiced as Maggie carries the day, it is De Banzie who carries the movie. Laughton must have realized this would happen during their first scenes together. De Banzie starts by giving us a no-nonsense woman who knows how to bag things done. Her decision to compose Willie Mossop her man, to marry him, slowly lets us view unbiased a puny vulnerability. She’s not going to choose “no” from Willie, she will create him a success, but we launch to realize without her saying a word that she wants Willie to not derive her unattractive. Their wedding night and the morning after is played for smiles, but they’re tender smiles. We realize that Maggie made a first-rate choice in Willie and that Willie realizes fair how lucky he was. Henry Hobson may continue to bluster, luxuriate in his drink, put a question to his comforts and construct us indulge in Laughton’s bits of over-acting, but it is Maggie and William we feel apt about. Together, they’re going to be running things…and successfully, too.
The movie was released long ago on VHS tape and can composed be tracked down. Criterion’s DVD release, due in a couple of months, will undoubtedly give the movie the attention it deserves. I conception to select it as soon as it’s out and will add here my understanding of the extras. This is one of David Lean’s finest films. Hopefully, the Criterion release also will bring more attention to what a fair actor Brenda De Banzie was.
I cannot even launch to descibe the tenderness, humor, and subtle life lessons in this movie. It cannot support but be intelligent and uplifting in the truest sense. I have this on vhs…it is so mature from watching…I have loaned it to many friends who have said that in the first few minutes they are wondering why I like it so remarkable, and then they are gradually brought to the point where they are enchanted with the sweet lessons of self-determination, factual esteem, and the radiant transformation of Willie as Maggie sees in him what even he cannot peek. A man well treated by a woman does so remarkable for his confidence….And as for maggie…How radiant to glimpse the message that we obtain our bear happiness in life.
There are so many popular moments, but i agree with the earlier review that Maggie(DeBanzie) steals the exhibit. Nearly every scene with her in it contains my popular moments A random bit…but one of my common moments is just at the wedding supper…Apt like is seeing the honorable in our spouse and helping them own it. I also really like the snip of a scene earlier in the film when Willie realizes that he will never be going succor to his frail life and his sheer disbelief and joy.
This is a clear winner with the quality of Miracle on 34th street, a movie that will be watched over and over. Treat yourself and pick on for your mother!
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