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The Old Curiosity Shop (1995)

Directed by Kevin Connor

Overview

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.

Length 120 minutes

Actors

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