"A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her."
Claude Rains
as John Jasper
Douglass Montgomery
as Neville Landless
Heather Angel
as Rosa Bud
David Manners
as Edwin Drood
Francis L. Sullivan
as Rev. Mr. Septimus Crisparkle
Valerie Hobson
as Helena Landless
Zeffie Tilbury
as The Opium Woman
Ethel Griffies
as Miss Twinkleton
E. E. Clive
as Mayor Thomas Sapsea
Walter Kingsford
as Hiram Grewgious
Forrester Harvey
as Durdles
Veda Buckland
as Mrs. Tope
Elsa Buchanan
as Mrs. Tisher
George Ernest
as Deputy
J.M. Kerrigan
as Chief Verger Tope
Walter Brennan
as First Gossip
Margaret Donovan
Hairstylist
Edward Ward
Original Music Composer
Bradley King
Screenplay
Gladys Unger
John L. Balderston
Leopold Atlas
Edmund Grainger
Associate Producer
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer
Edward Curtiss
Editor
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Otto Lederer
Makeup Artist
John P. Fulton
Special Effects
Clifford Vaughan
Orchestrator
Gilbert Kurland
Sound Supervisor
Carl Laemmle
Presenter
Stuart Walker
Director
George Robinson
Director of Photography
Camille Collins
Production Secretary
Hilda Grenier
Technical Advisor
Charles Dickens
Novel