The Old Curiosity Shop

"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."

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

Crew

Thomas Bentley

Director

Leslie Norman

Editor

Walter C. Mycroft

Producer

Ralph Neale

Screenplay

Margaret Kennedy

Screenplay

Charles Dickens

Novel

Ronald Neame

Camera Operator

Herman Finck

Original Music Composer

Claude Friese-Greene

Director of Photography