Hobson's Choice (1954) In the opening scene, Hobson drunkenly bursts through his shop front door, belches loudly and is met by his daughter, Maggie who comments, "Good job your Masons meeting's only once a month." [00:04:00] Mr. Heeler enters the shop the next morning to be told that Hobson's not yet come down and had his breakfast. Maggie exclaims, "Breakfast? With your Masons meeting last night?" [00:06:10] Maggie later admonishes her father when he raises his voice at the dinner table: "You're not addressing a Mason's meeting, now father." [00:10:00] When Maggie walks into her father's back office, a framed Master Mason's certificate can be seen on the wall. [00:21:50] A second certificate, is later seen in the front shop. [00:37:20] Hobson's Choice (1954). Directed by David Lean, written by Harold Brighouse, David Lean. Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales, Richard Wattis, Derek Blomfield, Helen Haye, Joseph Tomelty, Julien Mitchell, Gibb McLaughlin, Philip Stainton, Dorothy Gordon, Madge Brindley, John Laurie. UK, English, 107 min., Mono, Black and White

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