The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

Released on
Drama, Comedy, Family, TV Movie
Runtime
120 mins
(3 votes)

1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of money to Nell's grandfather as an investment, expecting a large profit. But when Quilp finds out the old man has lost all the money with playing cards, he is determined to get the man in a madhouse as revenge. Nell and her grandfather are forced to leave their house and to start traveling across the country. But Quilp isn't sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also looking for Nell's grandfather.

Cast

  • Peter Ustinov
  • Alan Barry
  • Adam Blackwood
  • Tom Courtenay
  • Sally Walsh
  • Brian de Salvo
  • Christopher Ettridge
  • James Fox
  • Ricci Harnett
  • Doreen Keough
  • William Mannering
  • Julia McKenzie
  • Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy
  • Alan Shearman
  • Timothy Watson
  • Anne White
  • Gloria Hunniford
  • Frank Thornton

Director

  • Kevin Connor

Producers

    Screenwriter

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