The Old Curiosity Shop

Also known as Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Mai Deacon, Warwick Buckland and Alma Taylor. It was based on the 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, and was the first of three film adaptations of the story by Bentley. It was made by the Hepworth Company, the leading British film studio before the First World War.

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Mai Deacon as Little Nell

Warwick Buckland as Grandfather Trent

E. Felton as Quilp

Alma Taylor as Mrs. Quilp

Jamie Darling as The Single Gentleman

Willie West as Dick Swiveller

Billy Rex as Tom Codlin

S. May as Sampson Brass

Bert Stowe as Short

Sydney Locklynne as Jerry

Moya Nugent as Marchioness

R. Phillips as Mrs. Jarley

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Also known as Old Curiosity Shop

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“Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.”
— First lines of Dicken's first published work, originally titled "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"
“I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on.”
— Our Parish, Ch. 5 : The Broker’s Man
“That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.”
— Ch. 40
“"Time was," he said, "when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light."”
— Ch. 46
“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
— Bk. II, Ch. 28
“'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'”
— Bk. III, Ch. 9

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