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Castle in the Desert
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Castle in the Desert

Feb 2, 1942
1h 2m
★ 7.0

Overview

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusive historian and his wife, a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia. Once there, he finds the request's legitimacy denied by all who are present, but still necessary as one houseguest has already been murdered, the other guests are at each other's throat, and the Borgia-related chatelain is suspected...

Genres

Crime
Mystery
Thriller

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Cast

Sidney Toler

Charlie Chan

Sidney Toler

Victor Sen Yung

Jimmy Chan

Victor Sen Yung

Lenita Lane

Lucy Borgia Manderley

Lenita Lane

Douglass Dumbrille

Paul Manderley

Douglass Dumbrille

Steven Geray

Dr. Retling

Steven Geray

Edmund MacDonald

Walter Hartford

Edmund MacDonald

Arleen Whelan

Brenda Hartford

Arleen Whelan

Ethel Griffies

Mme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie

Ethel Griffies

Henry Daniell

Watson King

Henry Daniell

Richard Derr

Carl Detheridge

Richard Derr

Lucien Littlefield

Prof. Gleason

Lucien Littlefield

Milton Parsons

Arthur Fletcher

Milton Parsons

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