Word: hobson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London to learn to be a gentleman. He shares lodgings with a rickety, charming young man named Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness),and learns, instead, to be a snob. As he helps his old criminal friend to escape arrest and rescues Miss Havisham's ward, the beautiful Estella (Valerie Hobson), from a psychological trap, the noble and weaker sides of Pip's nature so con-.tend that he emerges a true...
...Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, who had a, go at bottling up the Spanish Fleet in Santiago Harbor, went a standard honor, nearly half a century after his triumph and ten years after his death: the Hobson manse in Greensboro, Ala. was dedicated as a public shrine...
...went to war and wives who stayed at home to resume their marriages, as if there had been no years between? At its worst, the picture wastes energy on a less familiar, less interesting problem: Suppose the husband (Michael Redgrave) has been reported killed, and the wife (Valerie Hobson) is on the point of remarrying when he returns...
...different. These scenes are conceived with enough simplicity and insight to give the actors a chance. Whenever they get the chance, they give the show a lot more than it gives them, and The Years Between comes to life as honest domestic drama with persuasive historical overtones. Valerie Hobson is able as well as beautiful, and Michael Redgrave is bitterly effective as the edgy, worn-out hero...
Unlike the discharged marine in Hail the Conquering Hero, who posed as a hero to save his mother disappointment, Warrant Officer Sugino had behaved courageously enough. But he had fallen down on the job of dying. Like Hobson at Santiago, he ran a block ship into the harbor's mouth and sank it. Then a Chinese boat rescued...