Candles at Nine | |
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Directed by | John Harlow |
Screenplay by | Basil Mason John Harlow |
Based on | novel The Mouse Who Wouldn't Play Ball by Anthony Gilbert[1] |
Produced by | Wallace Orton |
Starring | Jessie Matthews John Stuart Beatrix Lehmann |
Cinematography | James Wilson |
Edited by | Vi Burdon (uncredited) |
Music by | score composed & directed by: Charles Williams |
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Distributed by | Anglo-American Film Corporation (UK) |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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.