Candles at Nine
01/01/1944
1h 22m



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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.
Cast


Jessie Matthews
Dorothea Capper, the Heiress


John Stuart
William Gardener, Turf Commission


Eliot Makeham
Everard Hope


Beatrix Lehmann
Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper


John Salew
Griggs, Everard's Butler


Joss Ambler
Garth Hope
Vera Bogetti
Lucille Hope, Garth's Wife


André van Gyseghem
Cecil Tempest


Winifred Shotter
Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife


Reginald Purdell
Charles Lacey
Hugh Dempster
Hugh Lacey


Ernest Butcher
Eveard's Gardener
C. Denier Warren
Middleton, the Executor


Patricia Hayes
Gwendolyn, the Maid
Gerry Wilmot
The Compere
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