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Castle in the Desert

68 %|Feb 2, 1942|Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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...

Featured Crew

Harry Lachman
Director
Richard Day
Art Direction
Bernard Freericks
Sound
Harry M. Leonard
Sound
Virgil Miller
Director of Photography
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
John Brady
Editor
Lewis H. Creber
Art Direction

Cast

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Sidney Toler
Charlie Chan
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Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Chan
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Lenita Lane
Lucy Borgia Manderley
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Douglass Dumbrille
Paul Manderley
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Steven Geray
Dr. Retling
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Edmund MacDonald
Walter Hartford
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Arleen Whelan
Brenda Hartford
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Ethel Griffies
Mme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie
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Henry Daniell
Watson King
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Richard Derr
Carl Detheridge
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Lucien Littlefield
Prof. Gleason
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Milton Parsons
Arthur Fletcher
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George Chandler
The Bus Driver
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Oliver Blake
The Hotel Manager
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Eric Wilton
The Majordomo
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Paul Kruger
(unconfirmed)
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Tex Phelps
(scene deleted)