The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)

  • NR
  • 12/14/1934 (GB)
  • Drama
  • 1h 45m

Overview

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Thomas Bentley

Director

Ralph Neale

Screenplay

Margaret Kennedy

Screenplay

Charles Dickens

Novel

Cast

Elaine Benson's headshot

Elaine Benson

Nell Trent
Ben Webster's headshot

Ben Webster

Grandfather Trent
Hay Petrie's headshot

Hay Petrie

Quilp
Beatrix Thomson's headshot

Beatrix Thomson

Quilp's Wife
Gibb McLaughlin's headshot

Gibb McLaughlin

Sampson Brass
Lily Long's headshot

Lily Long

Sally Brass
Reginald Purdell's headshot

Reginald Purdell

Dick Swiveller
Polly Ward's headshot

Polly Ward

The Marchioness

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