Meredith Nicholson

The House of a Thousand Candles illustrated Meredith Nicholson

The House of a Thousand Candles is a 1936 American thriller film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Phillips Holmes, Mae Clarke, and Irving Pichel. It was based on the 1906 novel by Meredith Nicholson. The novel had been filmed twice before, once in 1915 (as The House of a Thousand Candles) and again in 1920 by Henry King (under the title Haunting Shadows) A British secret service agent is sent to try and prevent a plot to derail a peace conference in Geneva and threaten international peace.