Movie: Candles at Nine

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jessie Matthews
Jessie Matthews

Dorothea Capper, the Heiress

John Stuart
John Stuart

William Gardener, Turf Commission

Eliot Makeham
Eliot Makeham

Everard Hope

Beatrix Lehmann
Beatrix Lehmann

Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper

John Salew
John Salew

Griggs, Everard's Butler

Joss Ambler
Joss Ambler

Garth Hope

Vera Bogetti
Vera Bogetti

Lucille Hope, Garth's Wife

André van Gyseghem
André van Gyseghem

Cecil Tempest

Winifred Shotter
Winifred Shotter

Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife

Reginald Purdell
Reginald Purdell

Charles Lacey

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1944-01-01

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    5

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