Candles at Nine
Date: 1944
Director: John Harlow
Production Company: British National Films
Stars: Jessie Matthews, John Stuart, Beatrix Lehmann
Location(s): London
Region(s): London C-D
Storyline:
To claim her inheritance, a singer has to take up residence in a spooky old house when a rich, miserly old man is mysteriously killed after taunting his hard up relatives about who will gain a fortune when he dies.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
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Brakes, the country estate of Everard Hope, who is about to fall down the stairs after gathering his poor relatives to hear changes to his will. A model, almost certainly built at British National Studios in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
- Capture 2
- 17 Nov 2022
Whilst looking through an open window at the theatre, Cecil Tempest almost knocks actress Dorothea Capper to the street when he spots a taxi crash. The corner of Oxford Street and Regent Street to the south-east of Oxford Circus W1.
The location from street level. (PW)