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Summary: One of My All-Time Disney Favorites...
Review: ... and trust me, I am not a Disney groupie.From a 1970's kids'-eye view, this movie has it all: • Sassy and savvy lead character Casey Brown (Jodie Foster) is the kind of brash, street-smart survivor every kid imagines he would be if left to his own devices.
• The majority of the action takes place on a huge English estate, in a decrepit castle. Secrets abound!
• There is the thrilling hope of finding a pirate treasure.
• Clues to the treasure are revealed and solved one by one, allowing the viewer to actually feel a part of the search.
• David Niven is delightfully funny, playing four different characters, and leaving the viewer wondering just who he will become next.
• Although tame by today's standards, there is tension, and suspense... Can Priory (Niven) change clothes fast enough to continue his charade? Will the con-men be successful? Can Candleshoe survive its financial woes? Is Casey really Lady St. Edmund's (Helen Hayes) long-lost granddaughter? Will there be betrayal?
• The finale features a hilariously satisfying kids-triumph-against-bad-guy-adults melee. It may not be the '70s anymore, and I am certainly no longer a kid, but I still love this movie. Given the chance, I think kids of today will love it as well.
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Summary: One of My All-Time Disney Favorites...
Review: ... and trust me, I am not a Disney groupie. From a 1970's kids'-eye view, this movie has it all: • Sassy and savvy lead character Casey Brown (Jodie Foster) is the kind of brash, street-smart survivor every kid imagines he would be if left to his own devices.
• The majority of the action takes place on a huge English estate, in a decrepit castle. Secrets abound!
• There is the thrilling hope of finding a pirate treasure.
• Clues to the treasure are revealed and solved one by one, allowing the viewer to actually feel a part of the search.
• David Niven is delightfully funny, playing four different characters, and leaving the viewer wondering just who he will become next.
• Although tame by today's standards, there is tension, and suspense... Can Priory (Niven) change clothes fast enough to continue his charade? Will the con-men be successful? Can Candleshoe survive its financial woes? Is Casey really Lady St. Edmund's (Helen Hayes) long-lost granddaughter? Will there be betrayal?
• The finale features a hilariously satisfying kids-triumph-against-bad-guy-adults melee. It may not be the '70s anymore, and I am certainly no longer a kid, but I still love this movie. Given the chance, I think kids of today will love it as well.
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Summary: Candleshoe
Review: An interesting mystery where a couple hires a young woman to poise as the missing hierest to a estate fortune to get the money for them. Only she come to care for the family who thinks she's a member of and decide to do the right thing and get the treasure to save the estate from going under. A heart warming disney classic with comic hi-jinx.
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Summary: Childhood Memories
Review: Candleshoe is a movie I grew up with. When the DVD came out I just had to have it. The movie is an excellent look at the values of a delinquent youth and how those values can be changed. Jodie Foster plays Casey, a girl who has nothing to lose.. but gains everything. She learns about love and family and loyalty. This movie has something in it for everyone.
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Summary: One of My All-Time Disney Favorites...
Review: Casey Brown is a streetwise American kid who is brought to London by conman Harry Bundage who wants to pass her off as the long lost granddaughter of Lady St. Edmund, the owner of a large estate called Candleshoe. Somewhere on in Candleshoe, Captain St. Edmund, a pirate, stashed his stolen treasure of gold dubloons, and Bundage has the first clue as to its whereabouts. Casey tricks Lady St. Edmund into believing she is her granddaughter and begins her search for the next clue. Casey soon learns that Candleshoe is not as rich as everyone seems to think. Priory the bulter has had to let all the staff go in order to pay the taxes on the property, but he wears costumes and pretends to be Mr. Gipping the gardener, Jon the chauffeur, and a host of others just to keep the truth from Lady St. Edmund -- all with the help of 4 orphans who live in the large, empty estate. The more time she spends at Candleshoe, the more time Casey grows to like it and soon her loyalties are tested. Does she keep her bargain with Bundage, or does she help the Lady St. Edmund? This is a fun live-action adventure from Disney, full of wonderful performances by David Niven as Priory, Helen Hayes as Lady St. Edmund, and Leo McKern as the villainous Harry Bundage. But, the young Jodie Foster steals the show with her already-apparent acting skill. The story is good too, with enough to keep both kids and adults entertained. An enjoyable film full of a lot of fun and heart.
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Summary: A fun Disney live-action film for the whole family
Review: Casey Brown is a streetwise American kid who is brought to London by conman Harry Bundage who wants to pass her off as the long lost granddaughter of Lady St. Edmund, the owner of a large estate called Candleshoe. Somewhere on in Candleshoe, Captain St. Edmund, a pirate, stashed his stolen treasure of gold dubloons, and Bundage has the first clue as to its whereabouts. Casey tricks Lady St. Edmund into believing she is her granddaughter and begins her search for the next clue. Casey soon learns that Candleshoe is not as rich as everyone seems to think. Priory the bulter has had to let all the staff go in order to pay the taxes on the property, but he wears costumes and pretends to be Mr. Gipping the gardener, Jon the chauffeur, and a host of others just to keep the truth from Lady St. Edmund -- all with the help of 4 orphans who live in the large, empty estate. The more time she spends at Candleshoe, the more time Casey grows to like it and soon her loyalties are tested. Does she keep her bargain with Bundage, or does she help the Lady St. Edmund? This is a fun live-action adventure from Disney, full of wonderful performances by David Niven as Priory, Helen Hayes as Lady St. Edmund, and Leo McKern as the villainous Harry Bundage. But, the young Jodie Foster steals the show with her already-apparent acting skill. The story is good too, with enough to keep both kids and adults entertained. An enjoyable film full of a lot of fun and heart.
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Summary: Excellent family fun
Review: David Niven gives it his all as a butler trying to protect his Mistress played superbly by Helen Hayes from the harsh realities of the present. He takes on various guises of people long dead so that Hayes can pretend her life in the crumbling English mansion Candleshoe has not changed in forty years. A youthful Jodie Foster is a street-wise young con artist who agrees to impersonate Hayes long-lost granddaughter in order to make a fast buck. What follows is a barrel of laughs as Jodie, an assortment of orphan children, Niven, Hayes and a band of hilariously inept baddies, one of whom is the fabulous Leo McKern, find themselves on the hunt for a lost English treasure. A treasure that Niven wants to find so that his Mistress will not have to leave Candleshoe which is about to fall into the hands of debtors. Slowly Jodie finds herself at odds with the task she has been paid to do, and she changes sides, helping Niven and the children save Candleshoe for the old woman she has grown to love. Disney has created a cast of colorful characters that have you laughing and crying in the same breath and Jodie Foster is brilliant as the cynical young American girl who just might be the real heir to Candleshoe. Delightful, and wonderfully harmless fun. Well worth buying just for the innocent it exudes from every single frame.
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Summary: David Niven plays an English butler in this comedy romp.
Review: David Niven is at his best playing an English Butler trying to save the English Heritage. Along with Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster and the assorted misfits, a true spirit of togetherness enfolds to help save the 'castle'. Jodie Foster as a misfit shows even in this early film her talents to be. Grab the popcorn and see this with a few others ... it's to have a merry-old-english-happy-hour with.
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Summary: WIDE SCREEN, BUT NEEDS SOME RESTORATION!
Review: I BELIEVE, AS I AM SURE MOST OF THE OTHERS DO, THAT DISNEY SHOULD PUT IN WIDESCREEN EVERY DVD THEY SHOULD ATTEMPT TO SELL. THEY NEED TO RESTORE EVERY SINGLE ONE AS WELL, IF IT IS MORE THAN 10 YEARS OLD. NO ONE CAN TELL ME THAT THEY CAN NOT AFFORD IT, WITH ALL THEIR THEMEPARKS AND SUCH. I WILL CONTINUE TO BUY THESE INFERIOR DVDS HOWEVER, AS THEY HAVE A NASTY HABIT OF RIPPING THESE AWAY FROM PUBLIC VIEW FOR MANY YEARS AT A TIME. THESE FILMS ARE FAR BETTER THAN THE APPALLING, SOMETIMES VULGAR, TRASH THAT THE DISNEY NAME NOW OFTEN REPRESENTS ITSELF WITH. FOR SHAME. I WOULD BOYCOTTALL DISNEY ITEMS IF NOT FOR THE WONDERFUL FILMS OF YESTERYEAR. THE REMAKE OF THE PARENT TRAP IN ADDITION TO MULAN IN 1998, WERE THE LAST DECENT ONES, AND THEN THE MAGICAL WORLD OF DISNEY WAS NO MORE, PROBABLY GONE FOR GOOD. NO DOUBT SOME OF YOU AGREE.
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Summary: a GEM
Review: I first saw the film twelve years ago as a child and since then 40 times. I love it. It's a perfect family film without any violance and with pretty good actors.
I must admit, that Jodie Foster now is not one of my favorite actresses but in this film (and in the Freaky Friday of course) she is perfect for the role as well certainly Helen Hayes, David Niven and Leo McKern. Interesting plot, humour, no blood, sensational actors: do you need more?!
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