Candleshoe
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Candleshoe is a 1977 Walt Disney Productions live action movie starring Jodie Foster as Casey Brown, Helen Hayes as Lady St. Edmund, David Niven as Priory as well as Colonel Dennis and Mr. Gipping, and Leo McKern as Harry Bundage.
[edit] Plot
Con-artist, Harry Bundage discovers that there is a treasure located somewhere around the residence where Lady St. Edmund lives - the estate called "Candleshoe". Harry recruits Casey Brown, who until then was a street kid, into the con as Lady St. Edmund's grand daughter. The truth of the matter is that Lady St. Edmund is poor and owes money in back taxes to the government. Priory, the butler, as well as some local children help keep the place one step ahead of the government by selling produce made on the estate. All of this happens under the nose of Lady St. Edmund. Initially Casey enters the con attempting to find the location of the treasure, but over time, her affections turn towards that of the household under Lady St. Edmund.
The three clues revealed in the hunt for the treasure are:
- For the sunrise student there is treasure among books.
- The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (A reference to the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray.)
- He followed the eclipse for riches and fame, and if ye would prosper, do ye the same.
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