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The Old Curiosity Shop (1914 film)

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The Old Curiosity Shop
Directed byThomas Bentley
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Release date
  • 1914 (1914)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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 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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Bibliography

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  • Giddings, Robert & Sheen, Erica. From Page To Screen: Adaptations of the Classic Novel . Manchester University Press, 5 May 2000
  • Mee, John. The Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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