"A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her."
Claude Rains
as John Jasper
Douglass Montgomery
as Neville Landless
Heather Angel
as Rosa Bud
Valerie Hobson
as Helena Landless
David Manners
as Edwin Drood
Francis L. Sullivan
as Rev. Mr. Crisparkle
Zeffie Tilbury
as The Opium Woman
Ethel Griffies
as Miss Twinkleton
E. E. Clive
as Sapsea
Walter Kingsford
as Grewgious
Forrester Harvey
as Durdles
Veda Buckland
as Mrs. Tope
Elsa Buchanan
as Mrs. Tisher
George Ernest
as Deputy
J.M. Kerrigan
as Chief Verger Tope
Bunny Beatty
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
May Beatty
as School Cook (uncredited)
Evelyn Beresford
as Old Maid (uncredited)
Walter Brennan
as Milkman (uncredited)
Rosita Butler
Louise Carter
as Mrs. Crisparkle (uncredited)
Edward Cooper
as Dean (uncredited)
Harry Cording
as Turk, an Opium Addict (uncredited)
D'Arcy Corrigan
as Opium Addict (uncredited)
Anne Darling
Gordon Douglas
as Coroner (uncredited)
Effie Ellsler
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Will Geer
as Village Lamplighter (uncredited)
Helena Grant
as Maid (uncredited)
Anne Harrison
George Kirby
as Bailiff (uncredited)
Carla Laemmle
Dora Mayfield
as Gossip (uncredited)
Iris Moore
Corbet Morris
as Dancing Master (uncredited)
Anne O'Neal
as Crisparkle Maid (uncredited)
Helen Parrish
Barbara Perry
Dorothy Shearer
Eugene Strong
as Coachman (uncredited)
Lois Verner
Lloyd Whitlock
as Townsman (uncredited)
Margaret Donovan
Hairstylist
John L. Balderston
Screenplay
Gladys Unger
Edward Ward
Original Music Composer
Otto Lederer
Makeup Artist
Clifford Vaughan
Orchestrator
John P. Fulton
Special Effects
Gilbert Kurland
Sound Supervisor
Edmund Grainger
Associate Producer
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer
Carl Laemmle
Presenter
Edward Curtiss
Editor
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Stuart Walker
Director
George Robinson
Director of Photography
Camille Collins
Production Secretary
Hilda Grenier
Technical Advisor
Charles Dickens
Novel
Bradley King
Adaptation
Leopold Atlas
Phil Karlson
Assistant Director
Harry Mancke
Frank Beetson Jr.
Wardrobe Designer
Myrtle Gibsone
Script Supervisor