Castle in the Desert (1942)

Title: Castle in the Desert
Original Title: Castle in the Desert
Release Date: 1942-02-02
Status: Released
Rating: 6.8/10 (from 15 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Production Companies: 20th Century Fox
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