Based on the novel Christmas at Candleshoe, by J.I.M. Stewart (writing as Michael Innes), first published in 1953.
A teenage delinquent is sold by her foster parents to a crook who passes her off as a child who went missing many years earlier. He delivers her to the missing girl's grandmother, who lives in a big estate. The girl is assigned with finding a treasure which is hidden in the mansion.
Mildly entertaining juvenile comedy. The locations are interesting and agreeable, the humor is mostly bland, the plot is conventional but not dumb. The actors are competent.
The Wikipedia page has a link to a film called Crooks and Coronets, from1969, which has a remarkably similar plotline but apparently gives no credit to Innes' novel.
Rating: 38
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