Candleshoe 1977

Candleshoe
Directed by Norman Tokar
Produced by Hugh Attwooll Ron Miller
Written by Michael Innes (novel),Rosemary Anne Sisson,David Swift
Starring David Niven,Helen Hayes,Jodie Foster,Leo McKern
Cinematography Paul Beeson
Editing by Peter Boita
Distributed by Walt Disney Productions
Release date(s) December 16 1977 (USA)

Casey Brown (Jodie Foster), a street-wise L.A. kid, joins with a con man (Leo McKern) to cheat Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) whom they believe possesses buried treasure. Casey poses the woman's long-lost granddaughter, but soon finds that life in the mansion isn't what she had expected. This film contains a notable performance by David Niven, who plays a number of characters, including the butler Mr. Priory.



Casey Brown: I'm not deprived; I'm delinquent. There's a difference, you know.

It doesn't matter how many years go by, I will always love this movie.

Me too.
Casey Brown: (far too posh) Teddy and Piggywig!

I also love "Candleshoe" a lot. Even more than "Freaky Friday" I have to say.

Jodie has indeed many funny lines.

Casey Brown: "Who's this joker?"
(when Harold Bundage enters the bathroom where she had to take a bath)

Casey Brown: "What's this?"
(when she meets Grimsworthy, Bundage's cousin, for the fist time)

Yeah! I'd like to see this movie again and again. Jodie is so funny in it.

There are some very funny scenes, I agree. But the ending always touches my heart.

Harry!! This actor is just hilarious in his role.



I really like the scene where Casey goes walking with "her grandmother" aka Lady St. Edmund.

Artful_Dodger wrote: But the ending always touches my heart.

Casey Brown: What if your real granddaughter comes back?
Lady St. Edmund: Perhaps she has.

The more I watch this movie the more I like it

Claudia wrote:Harry!! This actor is just hilarious in his role.

I remember him in The Beatles movie "Help!"

I love that scene where she's out walking with "her grandmother" too. And I can relate because I can't count the number of days that I've felt like waking up with my dukes already up. But then I don't and just get pummeled as usual.

This is Jodies chubbiest appereance ever. What is funny and suits the plot perfectly. Since she forgets to eat something different than organic food, soja latte and sushi from time to time, she looks a tiny bit too thin nowadays imho. Especially when not styled and dressed up to ´movie mode´.

Candleshoe was her last Disney movie to fulfill her five film contract. I think the royalties of these were a decent foundation of her assets. She sometimes stated, there was a constant fear of being poor again that was present a long time in her family, with Jodie as the only breadwinner.

In case you want to hear Jodie speaking German, a friendly person just put the dubbed version on YT. It´s a little special, since that´s not the dubbing voice normally used since Taxi Driver. This is a typical 70s translation, a little uncaring maybe.



I´ll post a comparison between real Jodie and her standard dubbing voice right this minute!

I bet JF would sound awesome speaking German the way she does French. Maybe she'll still learn it someday.

She speaks a few German words in "Flightplan" when she's at the morgue.

Artful_Dodger wrote:I bet JF would sound awesome speaking German the way she does French. Maybe she'll still learn it someday.

You´re so right!

Claudia wrote:She speaks a few German words in "Flightplan" when she's at the morgue.

yeah, cool that was.

I would like to ask a native american speaker if it´s noticable that the Foster family once came from a small town in Illinois to Hollywood, or if it´s just a pure southern californian dialect she speaks (in real life of course, not in Shilence of the Lambsh ) Did she ever speak that `valspeak´ when she was young girl. I read about this sociolect on wikipedia. Since Jodie has grown up there in the Valley maybe this took effect on her way of speaking. Does Valspeak appear in Foxes?

I'm so not a fan of dubbed films... except Jodie dubs herself in French.

I saw her French version of Nim's Island at the cinema in a smaller city in the French part of Switzerland. I missed the English version when it was on so I decided for the French one. It was interesting to hear her in French for a change.

I always watch the original English spoken films at the cinema.

How does she do that, dubbing herself? Every time a film is finished she flies to France or is she speaking her text at home?

I have to see movies in german first. Later, on DVD/BD, I sometimes switch between versions if it gets too hard to understand i. e. too fast, mumble or `new` words. Just last week I´ve learned the meaning of "say uncle".

I think she flies to France to do it with the other French dubbers.

On a DVD commentary (I can't remember which one) she mentions something about it and she likes being in the "studio" with the other performers... something like that if I remember correctly. Or maybe she said in in an interview.

Ok, thanks. Maybe i do little research by myself later.