Hobson's Choice is one of director David_Lean's best comedies, featuring a fine performance by Charles_Laughton as the domineering boot-shop owner whose drunken behavior causes his family to rebel. Filmed on location in Salford, England, Hobson's Choice marvelously recreates the late Victorian era, and makes a credible stab at the linguistic flavor of the region. The story is told with Lean's trademark subtlety, most apparent in the wedding-night scene between Brenda_De_Banzie and John_Mills. One of Lean's greatest strengths as a director was his versatility over a wide range of motifs and settings. The intimate, back-and-white domestic comedy of Hobson shows little evidence of the widescreen, epic grandeur that would inform such later Lean work as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor_Zhivago, and A Passage to India. Cinematographer Jack_Hildyard does a fine job of keeping Hobson's Choice visually interesting. Richard Gilliam, Rovi

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