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Overall Rank: 7742
Average Rating: 2.6/4
# of Ratings: 16
Theatrical Release Date: 06/14/1954
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 02/17/2009
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Lean
Actors: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales, Derek Blomfield
Plot: Set in late nineteenth-century Lancashire, this story follows the fortunes of an overbearing boot-maker named Henry Hobson. As he yields increasingly to alcoholism and becomes ever more bellicose, Henry begins to lose control of his circumstances. When his headstrong eldest daughter, Maggie, declares that she will marry her father's meek yet talented cobbler, Willie Mossop, Henry's angry reaction drives the pair to leave and begin a store in rivalry of their father's. This precipitates a series of events at the end of which Henry must choose to cling to pride or to preserve his very well-being.
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Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 03/09/2024
Mostly amusing, but when it comes to David Lean I prefer either a grand-scale epic or a Dickens adaptation.
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