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A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered...
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(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Eliot Makeham | ... | Everard Hope |
| Beatrix Lehmann | ... | Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper |
| John Salew | ... | Griggs, Everard's Butler |
| Joss Ambler | ... | Garth Hope |
| Vera Bogetti | ... | Lucille Hope, Garth's Wife |
| Andre Van Gyseghem | ... | Cecil Tempest |
| Winifred Shotter | ... | Brenda Tempest, Cecil's Wife |
| Reginald Purdell | ... | Charles Lacey |
| Hugh Dempster | ... | Hugh Lacey |
| Jessie Matthews | ... | Dorothea Capper the Heiress |
| John Stuart | ... | William Gardener, Turf Commission |
| Ernest Butcher | ... | Eveard's Gardener |
| C. Denier Warren | ... | Middleton the Executor |
| Patricia Hayes | ... | Gewndolyn the Maid |
| Gerry Wilmot | ... | The Compere |
| Guy Fielding | ... | The Dancer |
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| James Knight | ... | Air-Raid Warden (uncredited) |
| Charles Paton | ... | Stagedoor Keeper (uncredited) |
| Julian Vedey | ... | Tony the Barman (uncredited) |
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| John Harlow | |||
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| Anthony Gilbert | novel "The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball" | |
| John Harlow | ||
| Basil Mason | ||
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| Wallace Orton | .... | producer | |
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| Charles Williams | |||
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| James Wilson | |||
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| Vi Burdon | (uncredited) | ||
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| Roberta Jones | |||
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| C. Wilfred Arnold | |||
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| Harry Hayward | .... | makeup artist | |
| Gladys Weston | .... | hair stylist | |
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| Barbara K. Emary | .... | production manager | |
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| Robert Asher | .... | assistant director | |
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| Harold V. King | .... | sound supervisor (as Harold King) | |
| James Morris | .... | sound recordist | |
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| Arthur Grant | .... | camera operator | |
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| Maude Churchill | .... | wardrobe supervisor | |
Music Department | |||
| Harry Parr Davies | .... | composer: song "I'd Like to Share With You" (as Harry Parr-Davies) | |
| Charles Williams | .... | musical director | |
Other crew | |||
| Joan Davis | .... | continuity | |
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- Anglo-American Film Corporation (1944) (UK) (theatrical)
- Hollywood's Best (2005) (USA) (DVD)
- Hollywood's Best (2005) (USA) (VHS)
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If you're an ardent Jessie Matthews fan you will like Candles At Nine because Jessie does get to do one song and dance number. But other than that this is one very confused film. It seems like it might have started out as a satire on these inheritance murder stories, but got lost on the way.
As is typical in these stories old Elliot Makeham has gathered his closest relatives for a reading of a rather sarcastic will. After putting them all down including his Mrs. Danvers like housekeeper Beatrice Lehman and butler John Salew, Makeham reads that the fortune which he acquired through some shady means is going to a young performer played by Jessie Matthews who is not present. Later that night Makeham is killed during a false alarm panic over a supposed fire.
But for Matthews to inherit everything she has to stay in the creepy old house with the creepy old staff for a month. Why do people write such nonsense in wills? Still that allows Lehman and Salew to do their dirty work.
Candle At Nine is one confused film that should have stuck to being a murder mystery or gone for broader satire. As it is it's not that good in either genre.