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Candleshoe

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Candleshoe	label	Candleshoe
Candleshoe	page	Candleshoe
Candleshoe	comment	Candleshoe is a Disney live action comedy film from 1977, directed by Norman Tokar and adapted from the novel Christmas at Candleshoe by Michael Innes, aka J. I. M. Stewart.Jodie Foster – who at fourteen years old already had "Oscar-nominated" attached to her name, thanks to Taxi Driver – stars as Casey Brown, a street-smart and cynical foster kid living in Los Angeles. One day, Casey is discovered by con man Harry Bundage (Leo McKern), who realizes that she is the perfect double for Margaret, the long-lost granddaughter of Lady Gwendolyn St. Edmund (Helen Hayes), whose stately English manor, Candleshoe, is alleged to contain a hidden treasure in pirate gold. Bundage, who along with his partner-in-crime Clara Grimsworthy (Vivian Pickles) needs someone on the inside to go through the necessary Linked List Clue Methodology, sees Casey as just the juvenile delinquent for the job. In exchange for a cut of the loot and a red Ferrari, she agrees to travel to England, where Lady St. Edmund welcomes "Margaret" back home.But after joining the household, Casey discovers a terrible truth: Lady St. Edmund is penniless, and Candleshoe is on the verge of foreclosure. The only servant left is the butler, Priory (David Niven), who tries to hide the truth from Lady St. Edmund by pretending to be all the rest of the household staff. A group of local orphans taken in by the Lady (Veronica Quilligan, Ian Sharrock, Sarah Tamakuni, David Samuels) do most of the upkeep on the house and keep Candleshoe in the black by selling food grown on the estate at the local market, knowing that if Candleshoe is lost, Lady St. Edmund will be sent to a retirement home and they'll be returned to the orphanage.Of course, Casey couldn't care less about any of this. She's in it for the money. At least that's what she keeps telling herself. But as Casey becomes a part of the first real home she's ever known, she decides to find the treasure in order to save Candleshoe—even if it means admitting she's nothing but a fraud.
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Candleshoe / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Candleshoe / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Near the beginning of the film, there's a brief joke about the Great Hall floor being slippery. At the end of the climax, Casey uses this to defeat the villains. During the opening credits, Casey uses a similar trick to trip up a rival gang of kids in L.A.
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Candleshoe / int_26cb584e	type	Ash Face
Candleshoe / int_26cb584e	comment	Ashface: What happens to Grimesworthy when Casey shoves her into the fireplace. In fact, it might not have been so bad, except that what looks like a whole bucket's worth of ash tumbles down on her for no reason.
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Candleshoe / int_2a19090b	type	Hidden Badass
Candleshoe / int_2a19090b	comment	Hidden Badass: Priory’s spontaneous hand-to-hand combat with Bundage pales in comparison to his willingness to park Lady St. Edmund’s car on the train tracks to stop a speeding train from taking off with the last clue of Captain Joshua’s treasure hunt. When Lady St. Edmund refuses to get out of the car, Priory’s only recourse is to tip his hat to her, signal the oncoming train with a polite finger, then bodily place himself between the train and the car. Save for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sigh of relief, his only response to the train grinding to a halt literally a handsbreadth away from the vehicle is to politely ask the conductor if they could trouble him for a look in his baggage van.
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Candleshoe / int_2cac316e	type	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade
Candleshoe / int_2cac316e	comment	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: The group does the usual "toss the villains out and move the furniture to block the door" stunt, only to have the baddies reappear through the open door at the opposite end of the room. To be fair, the group knew the barricade wouldn't last long; they were hoping to buy time until the police arrived. They just forgot about the other door.
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Candleshoe / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Candleshoe / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Lady St. Edmund gives the thieves a stern telling-off after chucking them out the window.
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Candleshoe / int_34038e86	type	Hates Wearing Dresses
Candleshoe / int_34038e86	comment	Hates Wearing Dresses: Casey is disgusted when Bundage hands her a dress and she looks decidedly awkward when she's forced to wear one to Candleshoe. While Cluny and Anna always dress in pinafores, Casey sticks to her blue jeans.
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Candleshoe / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Candleshoe / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Helen Hayes as Lady Gwendolyn entertaining a girl that fraudulently claims to be her long-lost relative, then choosing to take her in anyway after the matter is left ambiguous, is a Whole-Plot Reference to her previous role as the Dowager Empress in Anastasia.
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Candleshoe / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Candleshoe / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Casey goes from being in on the con to genuinely caring about the future of Candleshoe and its occupants.
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Candleshoe / int_40f90c7c	type	Moody Mount
Candleshoe / int_40f90c7c	comment	Moody Mount: Priory rides a horse that is rather difficult to control, although it's unclear as to whether it really is moody or if Priory is just that bad at horsemanship.
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Candleshoe / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Candleshoe / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The final clue leads to the statue of Captain St. Edmund in the great hall—the first thing Casey sees at Candleshoe
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Candleshoe / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Candleshoe / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Done subtly with Casey, who begins to embrace her role when the people of Candleshoe treat her with genuine kindness.
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Candleshoe / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Candleshoe / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Casey goes in prepared to rob Candleshoe blind, but softens quickly once she sees how much Lady St. Edmund cares for the place and how hard everyone works to retain it.
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Candleshoe / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Candleshoe / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Bundage at first comes off as a flustered, barely-competent hustler who needs a street urchin to run his cons for him. His willingness to resort to violence is foreshadowed when he slaps Casey for her smart mouth at the beginning of their acquaintance. Once his desperation to pay off his loans reaches critical mass, he demonstrates that he is willing to do anything to get his hands on the money even stealing bake sale money from orphans and running Casey off the road with his car when she tries to take it back, leaving her unconscious in a ditch.
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Candleshoe / int_4e7017f1	type	Wig, Dress, Accent
Candleshoe / int_4e7017f1	comment	Wig, Dress, Accent: How Priory fakes the rest of Candleshoe's staff. At one point when Lady St. Edmund fires one of his alter egos, Priory (as himself) begs her not to, on the grounds that he would "be very hard to replace."
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Candleshoe / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Candleshoe / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: In the climax, Harry's goons are taking the place apart with sledgehammers and pickaxes.
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Candleshoe / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
Candleshoe / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: Used when Bundage is driving Casey to Candleshoe for the first time. When they get onto the actual property of the manor, the interior shots of the car change to being real, making the fakeness of the earlier shots all the more obvious. A single shot near the climax of the film, where Priory stands in the path of an oncoming locomotive, is pretty obviously this.
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Candleshoe / int_5e260ea6	type	Conveniently an Orphan
Candleshoe / int_5e260ea6	comment	Conveniently an Orphan: With no parents and only a string of rotten foster homes to look forward to, Casey is more than willing to go along with Harry's scheme. Her inability to remember her birth parents also makes it more ambiguous whether or not she is the real Margaret.
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Candleshoe / int_681c1b78	type	All Asians Know Martial Arts
Candleshoe / int_681c1b78	comment	All Asians Know Martial Arts: Anna, as signaled by stereotypical "Oriental riff". Casey even says "You gotta be kidding" just before Anna takes her out with a kung-fu chop. It's then subverted in that Anna more uses Confusion Fu via the "You gotta be kidding" to give her an opening to perform a version of a chop that most kids at the time could've picked up from cartoons and then shove Casey down the hill.
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Candleshoe / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Candleshoe / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Lady St. Edmund, an elderly gentlewoman with nothing left except her ancestral estate.
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Candleshoe / int_7b35cd92	type	Land Poor
Candleshoe / int_7b35cd92	comment	Land Poor: Lady St. Edmund has nothing left of value except for her estate.
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Candleshoe / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Candleshoe / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: At the very end, Lady St. Edmund says to Casey, "I don't mind in the least that you lied to me when you first came to Candleshoe... but I would be very hurt if you lied to me now. Do you really want to go back to Los Angeles?" Casey breaks down crying.
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Candleshoe / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
Candleshoe / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: The elderly Lady St. Edmund is the last remaining heir of Candleshoe (with the exception of the long-lost Margaret).
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Candleshoe / int_8c0bbee3	type	The Family for the Whole Family
Candleshoe / int_8c0bbee3	comment	The Family for the Whole Family: Bundage's gang of crooks at the end of the film are exactly as competent as you'd expect a gang of crooks to be in a Disney film.
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Candleshoe / int_94cce63e	type	Fighting Irish
Candleshoe / int_94cce63e	comment	Fighting Irish: Cluny finally has enough of Casey blowing off chores and throws down on her. It doesn't go so well for her.
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Candleshoe / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Candleshoe / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The ending leaves one wondering, is Casey actually the girl she pretended to be? There's both evidence for and against Casey being Margaret. Given that Margaret was allergic to strawberries and Casey clearly isn't, this would suggest she isn't Margaret. On the other hand, it wouldn't be the first time someone outgrew childhood allergies. Casey also hates rice pudding while Margaret loved it, although her tastes could've changed over time. Casey remembers nothing about her early childhood, which could possibly be explained by her young age at the time and her potentially blocking out memories due to physical and emotional trauma from the accident. It's never explained where she got her scars from; they could've been caused by falling off a horse and catching her shoulder on barbed wire, which is what happened to Margaret, but given she grew up in some rough and unloving foster homes, she could've gotten the scars a different way.
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Candleshoe / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Candleshoe / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Priory is the only servant loyal enough to remain after all the others must be let go. Not only is he doing his own job for practically no wages, he's doing everyone else's job for actually no wages.
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Candleshoe / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Candleshoe / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Bundage is presented as a pompous buffoon whom the streetwise Casey easily walks all over. Then about halfway through our jolly treasure hunt, he cracks Casey's skull and tries to run her over with his car, leaving her hospitalized. While not graphic, it's a surprisingly dark moment in such a lighthearted romp of a film.
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Candleshoe / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Candleshoe / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: The audience is led to believe that Lady St. Edmund is so utterly oblivious, she’s unable to notice that not only are there no visible staff other than Priory in the manor, Priory is filling each of the vacated positions with little more than fake mustaches and a handful of accents. Turns out that she was aware of the kindly deception the entire time, and was only playing along out of gratitude for Priory’s hard work and compassion.
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Candleshoe / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Candleshoe / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: Casey has no clue what Peter means when he tells her the phone is "engaged".
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Candleshoe / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Candleshoe / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Casey, after some coaxing. Also could apply to Priory, who remains with Candleshoe after all the other servants must be dismissed, even though he has to do all the work on a butler's wages.
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Candleshoe / int_b5f5824e	type	Linked List Clue Methodology
Candleshoe / int_b5f5824e	comment	Linked List Clue Methodology: The four clues that lead to the treasure.
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Candleshoe / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Candleshoe / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Some day-for-night filming is used in the scene when Bundage steals the tax money.
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Candleshoe / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Candleshoe / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Casey's foster parents are not only negligent alcoholics, but expect Casey to earn her keep by handing over the fruits of her shoplifting, while saying nothing about her skipping school to do so. They also don't seem averse to hitting her when she mouths off, and their apartment is filthy and seems too small for three people. When we first see Casey, she's wearing oversize, castoff clothing, her hair is unwashed and oily, and she's covered with dirt and bruises. Any social worker who looked into this situation would intervene.
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Candleshoe / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Candleshoe / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: At fourteen, Casey has already undergone enough emotional trauma from her multiple failed foster assignments to turn her jaded and cynical. It takes a great deal of positive reinforcement from the adults at Candleshoe (and some tough love from the other children) to convince her to reveal her softer side.
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Candleshoe / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Candleshoe / int_dceccabf	comment	Cat Fight: Casey has one with the other girls at the manor, complete with the Rule of Pool (it's actually a lake in this case).
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Candleshoe / int_f08f8f89	type	Comedic Underwear Exposure
Candleshoe / int_f08f8f89	comment	Comedic Underwear Exposure: Grimesworthy is shoved into the fireplace, revealing her enormous white knickers.
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Candleshoe / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Candleshoe / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger/Prince and Pauper: Casey is not only the correct age to play Margaret, but has several critical identifying scars.
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Candleshoe / int_f946a529	type	Superdickery
Candleshoe / int_f946a529	comment	Superdickery: The original advertising seemed intent on portraying Casey in the worst possible light. Consider the Tagline, "For 10% of the action and a red Ferrari, she'd con her own grandmother." Apart from the curiosity factor, this is probably an attempt by Disney to seem "cool" in the midst of the 1970s Anti-Hero trend. To be fair, this approach avoids giving away the ending, not that it'll be a huge surprise to anyone who's seen a Disney movie before.
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Candleshoe / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Candleshoe / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: "Listen, Miss Clever Dick!" "Clever dick" is a British expression meaning roughly the same thing as "smart aleck".
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Candleshoe / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Candleshoe / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Casey originally agrees to help Bundage in exchange for ten percent of the treasure and a red Ferrari. Later, while she's recovering in the hospital, Casey is looking at a car catalog with a red Ferrari on the cover.
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