SummarySmall-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so sh... Read More
Directed By:Norman Tokar
Written By:David Swift, Rosemary Anne Sisson, Michael Innes
Candleshoe
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Candleshoe, with its beguiling English countryside settings, languid pace, defanged Dickensian villains, compassionate butler, down-at-the-heels nobility, hidden treasure and orphaned children engaged in a plot to outwit swindlers, keep up appearances and save the old manor from foreclosure, is the fiction of a bygone era.
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Candleshoe isn't immobilized by wholesomeness, as Disney movies go, it's unsually spirited as well as pleasant. [11 Feb 1978, p.E1]
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Comedy-adventure with a hit-and-miss list of Disney ingredients: street-smart (formerly 'spunky') Jodie Foster, Uncle David Niven wearing eccentric disguises, sweet Ms Hayes, winsome orphans, a slapstick climax.
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Fairly lackluster Disney effort is saved by Niven's great performance.
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Production Company:
- Walt Disney Productions
Release Date:Dec 16, 1977
Duration:1 h 41 m
Rating:G
Tagline:Laced with larceny...loaded with laughter!
