The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 91% of the 260 1950s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
171 audience votes
Key crew
- David LeanDirector
- David LeanScreenplay
- Wynyard BrowneScreenplay
- Malcolm ArnoldOriginal Music Composer
- Norman SpencerScreenplay
Cast
- Charles LaughtonHenry Horatio Hobson
- John MillsWilliam Mossop
- Brenda De BanzieMaggie Hobson
- Daphne AndersonAlice Hobson
- Prunella ScalesVicky Hobson
- Richard WattisAlbert Prosser
- Derek BlomfieldFreddy Beenstock
- Helen HayeMrs. Hepworth
- Joseph TomeltyJim Heeler
- Julien MitchellSam Minns
- Gibb McLaughlinTudsbury
- Philip StaintonDenton
Stills
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Themes
northern englandparent child relationshipmarriagebased on play or musicalmarriage of convenienceblack and whitedrunkshoe store