Synopsis
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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Cast
- David NivenPriory
- Jodie FosterCasey
- Helen HayesLady St. Edmund
- Leo McKernHarry Bundage
- Veronica QuilliganCluny
- Ian SharrockPeter
- Sarah TamakuniAnna
- David SamuelsBobby
- John AldersonJenkins
- Vivian PicklesGrimsworthy
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
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. - 75
Washington Post
Candleshoe isn't immobilized by wholesomeness, as Disney movies go, it's unsually spirited as well as pleasant. [11 Feb 1978, p.E1] - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Fairly lackluster Disney effort is saved by Niven's great performance. - 50
Time Out
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.
