
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
Cast

Charles Laughton
Henry Horatio Hobson

John Mills
William Mossop

Brenda De Banzie
Maggie Hobson

Daphne Anderson
Alice Hobson

Prunella Scales
Vicky Hobson

Richard Wattis
Albert Prosser

Derek Blomfield
Freddy Beenstock

Helen Haye
Mrs. Hepworth

Joseph Tomelty
Jim Heeler

Julien Mitchell
Sam Minns

Gibb McLaughlin
Tudsbury

Philip Stainton
Denton

Dorothy Gordon
Ada Figgins
Madge Brindley
Mrs. Figgins

John Laurie
Dr. McFarlane

Raymond Huntley
Nathaniel Beenstock
Jack Howarth
Tubby Wadlow
Herbert C. Walton
Printer

Edie Martin
Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited)
Leonard Sharp
Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)
Robert Brooks Turner
Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited)
Crew

David Lean
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Wynyard Browne
Screenplay
Norman Spencer
Screenplay, Associate Producer
Peter Taylor
Editor

Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
Adrian Pryce-Jones
Assistant Director
Peter Newbrook
Camera Operator
Julia Squire
Costume Supervisor
John Armstrong
Costume Design
Gladys Atkinson
Hairdresser
George Partleton
Makeup Artist
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Artist
William Hutchinson
Assistant Art Director
John Cox
Sound Supervisor
Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist
Red Law
Sound Recordist
Barbara Hopkins
Sound
Ken Ritchie
Boom Operator

Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Ray Hearne
Still Photographer
Alan Hall
Clapper Loader
Maggie Unsworth
Continuity
John Palmer
Production Manager
Harold Brighouse
Theatre Play
Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction
Margaret Townsend
Production Secretary



















