''Hobson's Choice'' is a 1920 British

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directed by

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and starring Joe Nightingale,

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and

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. 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 1916 play ''

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'' by

Harold Brighouse Harold Brighouse (26 July 1882 – 25 July 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is '' Hobson's Choice''. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manche ...

Cast

*Maggie Hobson -

*William Mossop - Joe Nightingale *Henry Horatio Hobson - Arthur Pitt *Alice Hobson - Phyllis Birkett *Ada Figgins - Mary Byron *Vickey Hobson - Joan Cockram *Tubby Wadlow - Charles Stone *Albert Prosser - George Wynn *Fred Beenstock -

Charles Heslop Charles Heslop (8 June 1883 in Thames Ditton, England – 13 April 1966) was a British actor. His stage successes include a musical version of '' Tons of Money'', which toured Australia for Hugh J. Ward in 1924, co-starring Dot Brunton. He ...

*Mrs. Hepworth - Ada King *Dr. McFarlane - Frederick Ross *Jim Heeler - Louis Rihll

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