Laughton plays the widower Hobson, a shoemaker with three unmarried ... his performance remains one of the film’s highlights. Mills also makes a major contribution in his interpretation of ...

Hobson (John Barrie), a heavy drinker, is told by his doctor that one of his daughters must return home to look after him but they all refuse apart from Maggie who, seeing her chance, agrees to ...

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 ...