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Candles at Nine

(1944)

January 1, 1944• 1h 22m
50%
TMDB Score

Overview

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.

John Harlow

Director

Top Billed Cast

JM

Jessie Matthews

Dorothea Capper, the Heiress

JS

John Stuart

William Gardener, Turf Commission

EM

Eliot Makeham

Everard Hope

BL

Beatrix Lehmann

Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper

JS

John Salew

Griggs, Everard's Butler

JA

Joss Ambler

Garth Hope

VB

Vera Bogetti

Lucille Hope, Garth's Wife

AvG

André van Gyseghem

Cecil Tempest

WS

Winifred Shotter

Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife

RP

Reginald Purdell

Charles Lacey