Hobson's Choice

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.Hobson's Choice featuring Charles Laughton and John Mills is streaming with subscription on The Criterion Channel, and streaming with subscription on Kanopy. It's a comedy and drama movie with a high Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 90% and a high IMDb audience rating of 7.7 (6,039 votes).