Hobson's Choice
Upstairs Downstairs - the British class system
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Comedy, History, UR
The eldest daughter of a bullish shoemaker decides to set up a rival business with her father's best boot-hand, whom she also intends to marry. Charles Laughton and John Mills play off each other brilliantly as the bullish shop owner and gentle but confident boot-hand in this clever romantic comedy, an adaptation of Harold Brighouse's 1915 stage play.
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