
Candles at Nine
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
Mystery
Horror
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Casts

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

André van Gyseghem
as Cecil Tempest

Winifred Shotter
as Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife

Reginald Purdell
as Charles Lacey

Ernest Butcher
as Eveard's Gardener