Hobson's Choice
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Gilbert Cates
Richard Thomas
Sharon Gless
Jack Warden
Lillian Gish
Bert Remsen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The TV remake of the 1954 David Lean movie classic that starred Charles Laughton and John Mills was transplanted from Lancashire, England, of the 1880's to New Orleans of 1914 while retaining its basic story about a cantankerous, carousing shoe shop owner determined not to give his three daughters a dowry and his clash with the oldest one, a strong-willed girl with a dream who takes her fate in her own hands and sets her sights on one of her father's simple-minded lackeys who happens to be a talented shoemaker. Written in 1916 as a three-act stage comedy, it became the basis of the 1966 Broadway musical, "Walking Happy." For his script, Burt Prelutsky won the Writers Guild Award.
Director
Gilbert Cates
Cast
Richard Thomas
Sharon Gless
Jack Warden
Lillian Gish
Bert Remsen
Wynn Irwin
Lenora May
Jennifer Holmes
Robert Englund
Frank Dent
Henry G Sanders
Duncan Ross
Robert Earle
Bill Holliday
Michael Morrison
Ron Gural
Jack Hollahan
Becki Davis
Lenore Banks
Stocker Pontelieu
Barbara Chaney
Lyla May Owen
Matt Sorel
Donna Thompson
Nimard File
Charles Szasley
Kenyatto Szasley
John Schluter
Joe Catalanotto
Henry Sanders
Crew
Blue Andre
Peter Berger
Richard Berger
Richard Birnbaum
Harold Brighouse
Robert Drasnin
Vanessa Greene
Isidore Mankofsky
Joe D Mitchell
Patricia Nantz
Alice Pardo
Burt Prelutsky
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States December 21, 1983
