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The Old Curiosity Shop
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Barry O’Neil

Cast: Frank Hall Caine [Grandfather Trent], Marie Eline [Little Nell], Harry Benham, Marguerite Snow, Alphonse Ethier, William Bowman

Thanhouser Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Scenario by Theodore Marston, from the novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. / Released [?] 20 or 21? January 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was subsequently filmed as The Old Curiosity Shop (1912).

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: Charles Dickens

Listing updated: 20 October 2013.

References: Website-IMDb; Website-Thanhouser : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.