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Candles at Nine (1944)

Name: Candles at Nine
Director: John Harlow
Genre: Crime, Gothic, Misterio
Released: 1944
Duration: 82 min
Cast: Jessie Matthews, John Stuart, Eliot Makeham, Beatrix Lehmann, John Salew

1944 · John Harlow · 82 min · United Kingdom · Edited by 1

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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. 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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