The Old Curiosity Shop (1934 film)

The Old Curiosity Shop
Directed by Thomas Bentley
Produced by Walter C. Mycroft
Written by Charles Dickens (novel)
Ralph Neale
Margaret Kennedy
Starring Elaine Benson
Ben Webster
Hay Petrie
Polly Ward
Music by Herman Finck
Cinematography Claude Friese-Greene
Edited by Leslie Norman
Production
company
Distributed by Wardour Films
First Division Pictures (US)
Release dates
December 1934
Running time
105 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1934 British drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Elaine Benson, Ben Webster and Hay Petrie.[1] It is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop.

Production

The film was produced by British International Pictures, one of the two most prominent British film studios of the time, at its base at Elstree Studios. Bentley was a well-established director who worked on several of the company's presigous historical films during the decade. He had previously directed a number of Dickens adaptations during the silent era, but this was his only Dickens talkie. The film sought to achieve a "painterly" effect in its interpretation of the original work. The recreation of the grotesque elements of Dickens' novel has led to it being described as an "expressionist nightmare".[2]

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