Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
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Charles Laughton as Henry Horatio Hobson
John Mills as William Mossop
Brenda De Banzie as Maggie Hobson
Daphne Anderson as Alice Hobson
Prunella Scales as Vicky Hobson
Richard Wattis as Albert Prosser
Derek Blomfield as Freddy Beenstock
Helen Haye as Mrs. Hepworth
Joseph Tomelty as Jim Heeler
Julien Mitchell as Sam Minns
Gibb McLaughlin as Tudsbury
Philip Stainton as Denton
Dorothy Gordon as Ada Figgins
Madge Brindley as Mrs. Figgins
John Laurie as Dr. McFarlane
Raymond Huntley as Nathaniel Beenstock
Jack Howarth as Tubby Wadlow
Herbert C. Walton as Printer
Edie Martin as Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited)
Leonard Sharp as Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)
Robert Brooks Turner as Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited)
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