The Old Curiosity Shop

Also known as Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Mabel Poulton, William Lugg and Hugh E. Wright. It is based on the 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. Bentley remade the novel as a sound film in 1934.

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Cast

Mabel Poulton as Little Nell

William Lugg as Grandfather

Hugh E. Wright as Tom Codlin

Pino Conti as Daniel Quilp

Bryan Powley as Single Gentleman

Barry Livesey as Tom Scott

Cecil Bevan as Sampson Brass

Beatie Olna Travers as Sally Brass

Minnie Rayner as Mrs. Jarley

Dennis Harvey as Short Trotters

Dezma du May as Mrs. Quilp

Colin Craig as Dick Swiveller

Fairy Emlyn as Mr. Marton

A. Harding Steerman as Mr. Marton

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Also known as Old Curiosity Shop

Notable quotes

“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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