Candles at Nine (1944)

Name: Candles at Nine
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1944-01-01

1h 22m

Running Time

Plot.

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.

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This Movie Is About.

murder ·

gothic

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1944

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 22m

Genres
Mystery Thriller

Wiki.

Candles at Nine is a 1944 British mystery film directed by John Harlow and starring Jessie Matthews, John Stuart and Beatrix Lehmann.

A wealthy man taunts his relations and staff about which of them shall inherit his estate after he changes his Will; the same night, he falls down the stairs. His money is left to a distant female relative; a target for intrigue, from some, and murder, from another. It is based on the 1943 novel The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball by Anthony Gilbert.