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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."

Cast

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Jessie Matthews

as Dorothea Capper, the Heiress

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John Stuart

as William Gardener, Turf Commission

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Eliot Makeham

as Everard Hope

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Beatrix Lehmann

as Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper

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John Salew

as Griggs, Everard's Butler

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Joss Ambler

as Garth Hope

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Vera Bogetti

as Lucille Hope, Garth's Wife

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André van Gyseghem

as Cecil Tempest

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Winifred Shotter

as Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife

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Reginald Purdell

as Charles Lacey

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Hugh Dempster

as Hugh Lacey

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Ernest Butcher

as Eveard's Gardener

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C. Denier Warren

as Middleton, the Executor

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Patricia Hayes

as Gwendolyn, the Maid

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Gerry Wilmot

as The Compere

Crew

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John Harlow

Screenplay

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John Harlow

Director

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Basil Mason

Screenplay

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Anthony Gilbert

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