Candleshoe

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

1977 • 101 min • Family

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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.

Our family guide

Best from age 6

Movie Knight Score

124 reviews

100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
69 Audience · 122 · 49%

An American orphan is enlisted by a con artist to impersonate a long-lost heiress to an English estate, hoping to find hidden treasure. As she grows fond of the estate and its inhabitants, she must follow clues to find the treasure before the con artist takes over and the estate is lost forever.

Violence & peril: 2/10
Language: 1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking: 1/10
Romance & sensuality: 0/10
Scary moments: 2/10

Heads up

Some mild slapstick violence
Villains try to trick and manipulate people
Discussions of poverty and bankruptcy

What it models well

Loyalty and family bonds
Finding where you belong
Resourcefulness and bravery
Protecting heritage

Talk about it after

The true meaning of wealth beyond money
The ethics of deception, even for a good cause
What makes a family, blood or love?

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Top billed cast

Director: Norman Tokar • Crew: Rosemary Anne Sisson, David Swift

Trailers & clips

Candleshoe trailer

Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
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.…
CinemaSerf, TMDB Community

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
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.…
r96sk, TMDB Community