Candles at Nine
movie
Released January 01, 1944
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.
Cast
Jessie Matthews
as
Dorothea Capper, the Heiress
John Stuart
as
William Gardener, Turf Commission
Eliot Makeham
as
Everard Hope
Beatrix Lehmann
as
Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper
John Salew
as
Griggs, Everard's Butler
Joss Ambler
as
Garth Hope
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Vera Bogetti
as
Lucille Hope, Garth's Wife
André van Gyseghem
as
Cecil Tempest
Winifred Shotter
as
Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife
Reginald Purdell
as
Charles Lacey
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Hugh Dempster
as
Hugh Lacey
Ernest Butcher
as
Eveard's Gardener