Hobson's Choice

It was Alexander Korda who suggested Harold Brighouse's 1915 stage comedy Hobson's Choice to David Lean as a possible film project. It had been filmed twice before, by Percy Nash in 1920 and Thomas Bentley in 1931. The title is a pun - 'Hobson's Choice' is no choice at all, precisely the situation Henry Hobson finds himself in by the end of the play.

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