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Candleshoe

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United Kingdom, United States · 1977
Rated PG · 1h 41m
Director Norman Tokar
Starring David Niven, Jodie Foster, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern
Genre Family

When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he convinces a girl named Casey to impersonate the estate owner's long-lost granddaughter to gain access. But when Casey has a change of heart, she must follow the clues and find the treasure, to save Candleshoe and stop Harry before it is too late.

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Time Out by

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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Washington Post by Gary Arnold

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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The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder

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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