Candles at Nine 1944

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.

Cast:

Jessie Matthews
Dorothea Capper, the Heiress 

John Stuart
William Gardener, Turf Commission 

Eliot Makeham
Everard Hope 

Beatrix Lehmann
Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper 

John Salew
Griggs, Everard's Butler 

Joss Ambler
Garth Hope