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Candleshoe

For 10% of the action and a red Ferrari, she'd con her own grandmother.

6.9(126)19771h 41m3

When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize. By convincing a girl named Casey to impersonate the estate owner's long-lost granddaughter, Harry hopes to uncover the treasure's location. But when Casey has a change of heart, she must follow the clues and find the treasure, in order to save Candleshoe and stop Harry before it is too late.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • butler
  • bankrupt
  • con artist
  • orphan
  • heiress
  • impersonation
  • hidden treasure
  • adventure comedy
  • impersonation fraud
  • hidden clues
  • orphan girl
  • loyal servant

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Norman Tokar

Produced in

United States of America, United Kingdom

Gallery

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalG16 Dec 1977
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalU16 Dec 1977
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalG16 Dec 1977
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalS5 Sept 1980
  • GermanyDE

    • Physical61 Mar 1988
  • IrelandIE

    • TheatricalG12 Jan 1979
  • SwedenSE

    • TheatricalBtl3 Sept 1979

Frequently asked questions

Candleshoe was released on 16 December 1977.

Audience reviews

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  • R

    r96sk

    8/28/2020

    7/10

    I enjoyed this. <em>'Candleshoe'</em> starts in a greater manner than it finishes, but the full duration is entertaining. The early scenes are, for this era of Disney live-action at least, actually quite unusual, I wasn't fully sure where the story was going at first - which is a positive. Once everything becomes clearer, it does lose the slight edge it has at the beginning. The cast, meanwhile, are very good. …

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/4/2023

    7/10

    A wonderful, gentle, spin on the "Little Lord Fauntleroy" tale with a great ensemble cast. David Niven always did thrive in the less-is-more style of acting and here it is never better displayed. Jodie Foster - an American street-urchin is engaged by unscrupulous gold-digger "Mr. Bundage" (Leo McKern) to travel to England where she is to impersonate the long lost grand-daughter of the Marchioness of St. Edmund (Helen…

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