Castle in the Desert
02/02/1942
1h 2m



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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...
Cast


Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan


Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan


Lenita Lane
Lucy Borgia Manderley


Douglass Dumbrille
Paul Manderley


Steven Geray
Dr. Retling


Edmund MacDonald
Walter Hartford


Arleen Whelan
Brenda Hartford


Ethel Griffies
Mme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie


Henry Daniell
Watson King


Richard Derr
Carl Detheridge


Lucien Littlefield
Prof. Gleason


Milton Parsons
Arthur Fletcher


George Chandler
The Bus Driver


Oliver Blake
The Hotel Manager
Eric Wilton
The Majordomo


Paul Kruger
(unconfirmed)


Tex Phelps
(scene deleted)
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