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The Amazing Mr Blunden
Why this pick
Its ornate old English house, hidden family history and child-centred mystery echo Candleshoe’s cosy blend of period adventure, danger and heartfelt belonging.
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MOVIE1977 1h 41m USA
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Five Children and It
Why this pick
A group of children turn a stay at a grand country house into a playful magical adventure, with the same warm, lightly mischievous family-storybook spirit.
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The Secret Garden
Why this pick
Another emotionally generous tale of a young outsider entering a forbidding English estate and uncovering its secrets, though its mystery is gentler and more intimate than Candleshoe’s.
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The Goonies
Why this pick
For Candleshoe’s youthful treasure-hunting momentum and eccentric characters, this offers a faster, more rambunctious version of children following old clues toward a hidden fortune.
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Escape to Witch Mountain
Why this pick
Its resourceful children, suspenseful pursuit and kindly adults create the same breezy 1970s Disney adventure tone beneath a story about identity and finding home.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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 and a sly con man are determined to find. Casey eventually discovers there may be an even greater treasure at Candleshoe...but first she must dupe Candleshoe's widowed owner into believing she's her long-lost granddaughter.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
David Niven
Priory
Ian Sharrock
Peter
David Samuels
Bobby
John Alderson
Jenkins
Vivian Pickles
Grimsworthy
Jodie Foster
Casey
Helen Hayes
Lady St. Edmund
Leo McKern
Harry Bundage