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
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Artist
George Partleton
Makeup Artist
William Hutchinson
Assistant Art Director
John Cox
Sound Supervisor
Red Law
Sound Recordist
Buster Ambler
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
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