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Candles at Nine (1944)

Directed by John Harlow

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.

Length 82 minutes

Actors

Jessie Matthews | John Stuart | Eliot Makeham | Beatrix Lehmann | John Salew | Joss Ambler | Vera Bogetti | André van Gyseghem | Winifred Shotter | Reginald Purdell | Hugh Dempster | Ernest Butcher | C. Denier Warren | Patricia Hayes | Gerry Wilmot