The Old Curiosity Shop | |
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Directed by | Thomas Bentley |
Written by |
Charles Dickens (novel) Thomas Bentley |
Starring | Mai Deacon Warwick Buckland Alma Taylor |
Production
company |
Hepworth Company
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Release date
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1914 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Mai Deacon, Warwick Buckland and Alma Taylor. It was based on the 1840 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.