The Old Curiosity Shop (DVD, 2005)

This is a decent adaption of one of Dickens' most beloved but lesser known novels about a gambling grandpa trinket shopkeeper and his granddaughter stalked by a miser dwarf they're in debt to. Viewers are reminded there was once a such thing as debtor's prison in the old country and you could be jailed for it. And Ustinov is at home in his skin as the grandfather. But Tom Courtenay as Quilp provides too much of a hard take on one of the Victorian Age's most comic villains. This show suffices as a fair intro to Dickens. But the 1979 BBC 4 hour mini series version is more faithful to the picaresque novel's literal and dramatic origins.