Candleshoe

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Candleshoe is a 1977 Walt Disney Productions live action movie starring Jodie Foster as Casey Brown, Helen Hayes as Lady St. Edmund (in her last screen appearence), David Niven as Priory (as well as Colonel Dennis and Mr. Gipping), and Leo McKern as Harry Bundage.

[edit] Plot

Con-artist, Harry Bundage discovers that there is a great treasure located somewhere around the residence where Lady St. Edmund lives - the estate of "Candleshoe".

Harry recruits American Casey Brown, who until then was a street kid, into the plot employing her to pose Lady St. Edmund's estranged grand daughter. Lady St. Edmund, however, is poor and owes money in back taxes to the government. Priory, her butler (who is forced to pose as a gardener and gentleman Colonel), as well as some local orphan children help keep the estate finances one step ahead of the government by selling produce made on the estate. All of this happens under the nose of Lady St. Edmund. Initially Casey enters the con attempting to find the location of the treasure, but over time, her affections turn towards that of the household and Lady St. Edmund. She eventually joins them in attempting to undercover Lady St. Edmund's treasure for the benefit of Candleshoe and not Bundage.

The three clues revealed in the hunt for the treasure are:

• For the sunrise student there is treasure among books.
• The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (A reference to the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray.)
• He followed the eclipse for riches and fame, and if ye would prosper, do ye the same.

[edit] External links

• Candleshoe at the Internet Movie Database