El déspota (1954)
Adaptación de una obra teatral de Harold Brighouse, ambientada en 1890. Trata sobre las relaciones entre un próspero comerciante viudo y sus hijas, a las que mantiene encerradas en casa, mientras se dedica a lamentarse y a despotricar contra lo injusta que es la vida por haberle arrebatado a su esposa.
Directora:
David Lean
Escritores:
David Lean, Wynyard Browne, Norman Spencer.
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Charles Laughton as Henry Horatio Hobson |
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John Mills as William Mossop |
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Brenda De Banzie as Maggie Hobson |
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Daphne Anderson as Alice Hobson |
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Prunella Scales as Vicky Hobson |
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Richard Wattis as Albert Prosser |
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Derek Blomfield as Freddy Beenstock |
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Helen Haye as Mrs. Hepworth |
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Joseph Tomelty as Jim Heeler |
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Julien Mitchell as Sam Minns |
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Gibb McLaughlin as Tudsbury |
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Philip Stainton as Denton |
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Dorothy Gordon as Ada Figgins |
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Madge Brindley as Mrs. Figgins |
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John Laurie as Dr. McFarlane |
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Raymond Huntley as Nathaniel Beenstock |
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Jack Howarth as Tubby Wadlow |
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Herbert C. Walton as Printer |
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Edie Martin as Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited) |
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Leonard Sharp as Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited) |
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Robert Brooks Turner as Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited) |
| Directing | David Lean | Director |
| Writing | David Lean | Screenplay |
| Writing | Wynyard Browne | Screenplay |
| Writing | Harold Brighouse | Theatre Play |
| Production | David Lean | Producer |
| Sound | Malcolm Arnold | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Jack Hildyard | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Peter Taylor | Editor |
| Art | Wilfred Shingleton | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | John Armstrong | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | George Partleton | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tony Sforzini | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Adrian Pryce-Jones | Assistant Director |
| Production | John Palmer | Production Manager |
| Production | Norman Spencer | Associate Producer |
| Writing | Norman Spencer | Screenplay |
| Sound | Ken Ritchie | Boom Operator |
| Production | Margaret Townsend | Production Secretary |
| Camera | Ray Hearne | Still Photographer |
| Sound | Muir Mathieson | Music Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Julia Squire | Costume Supervisor |
| Camera | Peter Newbrook | Camera Operator |
| Sound | John Cox | Sound Supervisor |
| Sound | Buster Ambler | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Red Law | Sound Recordist |
| Art | William Hutchinson | Assistant Art Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gladys Atkinson | Hairdresser |
| Directing | Maggie Unsworth | Continuity |
| Sound | Barbara Hopkins | Sound |
| Camera | Alan Hall | Clapper Loader |
