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Candles at Nine (1944)

5 | Jan 01, 1944 (US) | Mystery, Horror | 01:22

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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Jessie Matthews
Dorothea Capper, the Heiress
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John Stuart
William Gardener, Turf Commission
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Eliot Makeham
Everard Hope
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Beatrix Lehmann
Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper
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John Salew
Griggs, Everard's Butler
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Joss Ambler
Garth Hope
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Vera Bogetti
Lucille Hope, Garth's Wife
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André van Gyseghem
Cecil Tempest
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Winifred Shotter
Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife
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Reginald Purdell
Charles Lacey