Candles at Nine

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.

Directed by John Harlow

Top 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

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Vera Bogetti

Lucille Hope, Garth's Wife

André van Gyseghem

Cecil Tempest

Winifred Shotter

Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife

Reginald Purdell

Charles Lacey

H

Hugh Dempster

Hugh Lacey

Ernest Butcher

Eveard's Gardener

C

C. Denier Warren

Middleton, the Executor

Patricia Hayes

Gwendolyn, the Maid

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Gerry Wilmot

The Compere

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