The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

105 mins | Drama | Dec. 14, 1934

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.

The Old Curiosity Shop

105 mins | Drama | Dec. 14, 1934

The Old Curiosity Shop
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers British International Pictures, Associated British Picture Corporation
Original title The Old Curiosity Shop
Directors Thomas Bentley
Writers Ralph Neale, Margaret Kennedy, Charles Dickens

Cast

Elaine Benson

as Nell Trent

Ben Webster

as Grandfather Trent

Hay Petrie

as Quilp

Beatrix Thomson

as Quilp's Wife

Gibb McLaughlin

as Sampson Brass

Lily Long

as Sally Brass

Reginald Purdell

as Dick Swiveller

Polly Ward

as The Marchioness

James Harcourt

as The Single Gentleman

J. Fisher White

as The Schoolmaster

Dick Tubb

as Tommy Codlin

Roddy Hughes

as Short

Peter Penrose

as Kit

Vic Filmer

as Tom Scott

Margaret Emden

as Bit part

Fred Groves

as Showman

Wally Patch

as George

Amy Veness

as Mrs. Jarley