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The Old Curiosity Shop

7.5/ 10197930m
Drama

The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. 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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Faces behind the story

Sebastian Shaw
Sebastian Shaw
Grandfather
Natalie Ogle
Natalie Ogle
Nell Trent
Trevor Peacock
Trevor Peacock
Daniel Quilp
Granville Saxton
Granville Saxton
Dick Swiveller

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