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Parent Child Relationship | Marriage Of Convenience
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Best British Actor | 1955 | John
Best British Actress | 1955
Best British Screenplay | 1955 | Wynyard
Best Film from any Source | 1955
Charles Laughton had already played the role of Hobson when he was a teenager on stage in his native town of Scarborough.
Although playing a 30-year-old, Brenda de Banzie was 44 at the time of filming.
In the middle of the movie, Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) staggers drunk out of his favorite bar, "The Moonrakers", and pursues the full moon's reflection in a puddle. This is likely an allusion to the legend of the Wiltshire moonrakers. An exciseman caught smugglers using rakes to retrieve barrels of contraband brandy hidden in a pond, but they explained they were after a wheel of cheese, pointing to the reflected moon. So the exciseman laughed at them and left them in peace.
Sir John Mills was only nine years younger than Charles Laughton.
Sir John Mills often cited this as his favorite movie.
"Maggie Hobson: I've been watching you for a long time and everything I've seen I've liked. I think you'll do for me."
"[Henry has been served a summons for trespass and damages from Beenstocks because he fell into their cellar in a drunken stupour and slept the night there] Henry Hobson: My good class customers are not going to buy their boots from a man who's stood up in open court and had to acknowledge he was "overcome" in a public street. Willie Mossop: D'you think it'll get in t'paper, Maggie? Maggie Hobson: Aye, you'll see your name in t'Salford Reporter, Father. Henry Hobson: Salford Reporter? When ruin and disaster overwhelm a man of my importance, it's reported in t'Manchester Guardian, for the whole country to read. Willie Mossop: Ee by gum, think of that! Why, it's very near worthwhile to be ruined, for t'pleasure of reading about yourself in t'printed paper."
