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Castle in the Desert (1942)

★ 7.0/10 62 min Crime, Mystery, Thriller United States English
Director: Harry Lachman
Characters: Earl Derr Biggers
Screenplay by: John Francis Larkin
Streaming: Not available

Description

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...

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Sidney Toler
Sidney Toler Charlie Chan
Victor Sen Yung
Victor Sen Yung Jimmy Chan
Lenita Lane
Lenita Lane Lucy Borgia Manderley
Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Dumbrille Paul Manderley
Steven Geray
Steven Geray Dr. Retling
Edmund MacDonald
Edmund MacDonald Walter Hartford
Arleen Whelan
Arleen Whelan Brenda Hartford
Ethel Griffies
Ethel Griffies Mme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie

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