Castle in the Desert
1942 · 1h 2m · Approved
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Harry Lachman
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Castle in the Desert
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...
Director and cast
- Harry Lachman Director
- Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
- Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan
- Lenita Lane as Lucy Borgia Manderley
- Douglass Dumbrille as Paul Manderley
- Steven Geray as Dr. Retling
- Edmund MacDonald as Walter Hartford
- Arleen Whelan as Brenda Hartford
- Ethel Griffies as Mme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie
- Henry Daniell as Watson King
- Richard Derr Cast
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