Candles at Nine

Candles at Nine
Opening title
Directed byJohn Harlow
Screenplay byBasil Mason
John Harlow
Based onnovel The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball by Anthony Gilbert[1]
Produced byWallace Orton
StarringJessie Matthews
John Stuart
Beatrix Lehmann
CinematographyJames Wilson
Edited byVi Burdon (uncredited)
Music byscore composed & directed by:
Charles Williams
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corporation (UK)
Release date
  • 1944 (1944)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Candles at Nine is a 1944 British mystery film directed by John Harlow and starring Jessie Matthews, John Stuart and Beatrix Lehmann.[2] 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.[3] It is based on the 1943 novel The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball by Anthony Gilbert.

  1. ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Candles at Nine (1944)".
  3. ^ "Candles at Nine (1945)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.