HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

SimonJack "Candleshoe" has a fine cast with a couple of former prominent actors, a good script, and an up and coming new young actress. David Niven plays four parts - three of which are intentional masquerades as servants and a friend of Lady St. Edmund. He is quite good with the disguises and voice accents and changes. Helen Hayes is the matriarch of Candleshoe, an old estate handed down through the family for centuries. But, with the disappearance and feared death of her granddaughter in a plane crash several years earlier, she has no heir for the estate. She's a kind woman who has taken in some foster kids. Enter a shyster by the name of Bundage who has taken great pains over a couple of years to find someone he could pass off as the granddaughter. He wants her to look for clues in the mansion for where the infamous ancestor and pirate, Captain Joshua St. Edmund, hid a large treasure of gold doubloons. Bundage hired a detective agency that found the perfect match in a street urchin named Casey. She doesn't have parents but lives with an old couple in shabby inner city housing of Los Angeles. She's a street-smart minor hooligan who passes clearly as a boy. Jody Foster was just 15 when she played this role, and she does a fine job with it. Leo McKern is very good as the villain, Bundage. The rest of the cast all do well. Most of the film was shot in England, and the house and country scenes are very pleasant. The film has light comedy and drama, and makes a good family film. It was based on a novel by Michael Innes, "Christmas at Candleshoe." Walt Disney studios released it as a holiday film a little over a week before Christmas 1977.Here's a favorite line from the film. For more funny dialog see the Quotes section under this IMDb Web page of the movie. Lady St. Edmund, "Good afternoon, John Henry." Priory, in disguise as the chauffeur, "Good afternoon, m' lady." Lady St. Edmund, "Oh, and how is your Uncle George?" Priory, "Ah, m' lady, I didn't think it necessary to trouble you with the news. But we finally had to measure him for his wooden overcoat." Lady St. Edmund, "Wooden?" Priory, "Yeah, we buried him last week, m' lady."

SnoopyStyle Casey Brown (Jodie Foster) is a foster kid and hustler in L.A. Con man Harry Bundage entices her to find Captain St. Edmund's treasure which he believes to be buried on the Candleshoe Estate in England. He tries to convince Lady St.Edmund that Casey is her long lost granddaughter. Priory (David Niven) is the butler. Along with four local orphans adopted by the Lady, he tries to maintain the flat-broke estate by scrounging up any extra cash.It's a fine Disney family movie. Jodie Foster is a terrific tough kid as always. She was simply one of the best child actors around. The treasure hunt is really aimed at the little kid level. It is heart-warming with a little bit of humor.

AaronCapenBanner Norman Tokar directed this appealing family film from Disney that stars Jodie Foster as Casey, who is enlisted by con man Harry Bundage(played by Leo McKern) to infiltrate the household of Candleshoe, led by an old woman(played by Helen Hayes) who Casey pretends to be the granddaughter of in order to locate a valuable treasure said to be located somewhere in the mansion. David Niven plays the butler of the house, who has concealed the fact of their bankruptcy from everyone, and who would also love the money derived from the fortune, if they can find it. Meanwhile, Casey finds herself becoming a part of the family, and decides to help them, and work against Harry. Entertaining film with bright direction and good cast, with a most charming story and setting.

moonspinner55 Hard to believe the Disney branch of the mid-'70s thought kids would be interested in the kooky nuns of "One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing", the church-lady super-snoopers of "The North Ave. Irregulars", or in the plot of this talky, sentimental comedy starring Jodie Foster as a delinquent teen transplanted from Los Angeles to the English countryside. Foster's in cahoots with a thieving couple, trying to find a treasure hidden somewhere on the property of an elderly woman and her gaggle of orphans. Despite a few missteps, Foster's work here is admirable, particularly in the quiet scene where she walks the grounds with Helen Hayes ("You have to keep your dukes up," Foster says. "When you wake up in the morning, the first punch is yours."). Her introductory scenes being 'bad' are enjoyable, though she seems to bond awfully fast with the other kids in the English manor, and I didn't quite buy it when she has a complete change of heart and becomes part of the family. We are not spared another Disney car chase--I don't know why I thought we would be, I supposed since we were in England and searching for treasure that wouldn't happen--but by God if the archaic Disney brass didn't shoehorn a nick-of-time auto-and-train race into this thing. Still, Jodie's performance, Ron Goodwin's wonderful score and some lightly amusing set-pieces make the film entertaining. **1/2 from ****