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Candles at Nine

5.0 82 mins Mystery   Horror   1944
British National Films  
Director(s): John Harlow

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.

Casts of Candles at Nine

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

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

Hugh Dempster

as Hugh Lacey

Ernest Butcher

as Eveard's Gardener

C. Denier Warren

as Middleton, the Executor

Patricia Hayes

as Gwendolyn, the Maid

Gerry Wilmot

as The Compere

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