Candleshoe
by Norman Tokar
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Actor: David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern, Veronica QuilliganDirector: Norman Tokar
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Cinematographer: Paul Beeson
Editor: Peter Boita
Producer: Hugh Attwooll
Producer: Ron Miller
Writer: David Swift
Writer: Michael Innes
Writer: Rosemary Anne Sisson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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- Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey (Award-winning actress Jodie Foster) and a sly con man (David Niven) are determined to find. But first she must dupe Candleshoe's widowed owner into believing she's her long-lost granddaughter! Casey eventually discovers there
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DVD Review: Treasure!
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was a child, I loved Disney films. We would go to the cinema where everything was larger than life. I have been pleasantly surprised several decades later to find that many of my best-loved Disney experiences translate well to the smaller screen of home. One such production I remembered with great fondness, and recently rediscovered on DVD, is Candleshoe.
The film stars a young teen-aged Jody Foster (perhaps one of her least known roles). She does a great job as the young delinquent from the `mean streets' of America who agrees to take part in a con job at a country manor home, going on an `inside job' treasure hunt. At one point, the main instigator of the job, played admirably by Leo McKern (perhaps best known as Rumpole of the Bailey), calls her deprived, at which point she corrects him and proclaims that she's not deprived, she's delinquent!
Helen Hayes, in what is perhaps her last role for the big screen, plays Lady St. Edmund, the grandmother of a lost girl, presiding over a nearly-bankrupt country manor home that doubles as an informal boarding house for other unattached children. Also part of this home is Priory, the quintessential English butler, played by the ever dapper David Niven (who, because of his star power, is given top billing in the film, and plays through Priory a host of other characters). Rounding out the cast are several child actors who do generally good Disney job of it all.
The plot is simple for children to follow, but not simplistic so as to lose the interest of adults. The basic plot is that Harry (McKern) and his cousin (a sacked maid from Candleshoe) plant Casey (Foster) in the country house to look for hidden treasure of the pirate ancestor of Lady St. Edmund. Casey agrees, after being promised a piece of the action, and she is introduced after appropriate coaching as the missing granddaughter returned. Casey discovers that not is all as it seems - while Lady St. Edmund presides as lady of the manor, Priory the ever-faithful butler and the retinue of children do their best to hide from her the fact that the manor is nearly bankrupt, and they are getting by without staff (Priory impersonates them all, including the impertinent Scottish gardener and the chauffeur sounding accent-wise like a reject from a Beatles cover band) and producing goods for the farmers' market in town to keep the bills paid as best they can. Casey proceeds to follow clues through the house looking for the treasure, while the other children follow Casey trying to find out what she's up to. In classic Disney style, there are moments of suspense, mystery, action and a climax where the bad guys lose and the good guys win, but not in this case by the most predictable means possible (fear not, I'll not spoil the ending!).
The set is an often-used set at Compton Winyates, eight miles west of Banbury in the English Midlands (scenes from `Death on the Nile' were filmed just the next year at the same place). There's a great English feel to this, without being over the top.
I recommend this film for kids of all ages. It stands the test of time well.
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