Candleshoe

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Candleshoe
Directed by	Norman Tokar
Produced by	Hugh Attwooll Ron Miller
Written by	Michael Innes (novel) Rosemary Anne Sisson David Swift
Starring	Jodie Foster David Niven Helen Hayes
Cinematography	Paul Beeson
Editing by	Peter Boita
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	February 10, 1978
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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Ratings
United States:	G

Candleshoe is a 1978 Walt Disney Productions live action movie starring Jodie Foster as Casey Brown, Helen Hayes as Lady St. Edmund (in her last screen appearance), David Niven as Priory (as well as Colonel Dennis and Mr. Gipping), and Leo McKern as Harry Bundage.

Candleshoe is based on the Michael Innes novel Christmas at Candleshoe.

[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 Jodie Foster, who until then was a street kid, into the plot employing her to pose as Lady St. Edmund's estranged granddaughter. 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 uncover Lady St. Edmund's treasure for the benefit of Candleshoe and not Bundage.

The four 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.
• Overhead, underfoot, in the great hall. Look high, look low, discover all.

[edit] Location

The fictional estate "Candleshoe" is Compton Wynyates in Warwickshire, the home of Spencer, 7th Marquess of Northampton.

A GWR 4575 Class appears in the train chase sequence with a GWR shirtbutton logo in either side of its tanks.

[edit] External links

• Candleshoe at the Internet Movie Database