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Hobson’s Choice
(1920) United States of America
B&W : [?] Six? reels / 1691 metres
Directed by Percy Nash

Cast: Arthur Pitt [Henry Horatio Hobson], Joan Ritz [Maggie Hobson], Phyllis Birkett [Alice Hobson], Joan Cockram [Vickey Hobson], Charles Stone [Tubby Wadlow], Joe Nightingale [William Mossup], George Wynn [Albert Prosser], Charles Heslop [Fred Beenstock], Ada King [Mrs. Hepworth], Mary Byron [Ada Figgins], Fred K. Ross (Frederick Ross) [Doctor Macfarlane], Louis Rihll [Jim Heeler], Judd Green [the landlord]

Master Films, Limited, production; distributed by British Exhibitors’ Films, Limited. / Scenario by W. Courtney Rowden, from the play Hobson’s Choice by Harold Brighouse. Cinematography by S.L. Eaton (Sidney Eaton). / Released March 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as Hobson’s Choice (1931).

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 31 July 2025.

References: Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.