Candles at Nine
Candles at Nine
Release: 1944-01-01
·Runtime: 82m
·★ 5.0
Mystery
Horror
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
British National Films
Cast
Patricia Hayes
as Gwendolyn, the Maid
John Salew
as Griggs, Everard's Butler
John Stuart
as William Gardener, Turf Commission
Beatrix Lehmann
as Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper
Joss Ambler
as Garth Hope
Winifred Shotter
as Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife
Ernest Butcher
as Eveard's Gardener
Eliot Makeham
as Everard Hope
André van Gyseghem
as Cecil Tempest
Reginald Purdell
as Charles Lacey
Jessie Matthews
as Dorothea Capper, the Heiress