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The Old Curiosity Shop is a British television film adapted from the Charles Dickens's 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop. [1] It stars Irish actress Sophie Vavasseur as Nell Trent, with Derek Jacobi as her grandfather, Toby Jones as Quilp and George MacKay as Nell's friend, Kit. [2] It was broadcast on 26 December 2007 on ITV. The adaptation is ...
The Old Curiosity Shop: Directed by Brian Percival. With Derek Jacobi, Toby Jones, Sophie Vavasseur, Gina McKee. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures.
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- Drama
- Brian Percival
- 2007-12-26
The Old Curiosity Shop (2007). Nell Trent lives with her grandfather, the proprietor of the Old Curiosity Shop. Grandfather has a disquieting secret, a gambl...
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Synopsis. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
May 5, 2009 · Old Curiosity Shop, The (2007)(DVD) Amazon.com. Arriving in the wake of the BBC's sweeping Little Dorrit, ITV's The Old Curiosity Shop feels like Dickens lite (in the U.S., both productions aired as part of PBS's Masterpiece Classic).
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- BBC Home Entertainment
- $9.55
- English
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
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Grandfather has a disquieting secret, a gambling addiction fed by high-interest loans from the bully Daniel Quilp. The villainous Quilp wants to get possession of the shop, and Nell. In league with his lawyer Samson Brass and Samson's sister Sally, Quilp seizes Grandfather's assets.
