Word: hobson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stars of the picture are Valeric Hobson and John Mills, but the minor characters are not less skillful, not is anybody who made "Great Expectations," from Dickens to director...
...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...