In 1880s Salford, England, widower Henry Hobson, owner and operator of Hobson's Boots, lives with his three adult daughters, Maggie, Alice, and Vicky, in a flat attached to the shop. Miserly ...
Henry Horatio Hobson is one of the greatest comic characters in English drama. Self-made man, shopkeeper, skinflint and boozer, he's a tyrant to his daughters and a law unto himself. When Maggie ...
In David Lean's wonderful reading of Harold Brighouse's play, Charles Laughton is on cracking form as an overbearing bootmaker in 1890s Lancashire. His tyranny is finally curbed when his canny ...
Popular Victorian-looking rum pub Hobson's Choice, on the corner of Clayton and Haight, will shutter after 26 years in business, owner Chris Dickerson told SFGATE columnist Stuart Schuffman this ...
Charles Laughton returned to his native country to star. Laughton plays the widower Hobson, a shoemaker with three unmarried daughters, one of whom is regarded as being permanently on the shelf.