
Release Date
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Original Release
February 2, 1942
1h 2m
Castle in the Desert (1942)
β 6.862 min
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
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Harry Lachman
Department: Directing
βPopularity: 0.2
Cast

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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Genres
CrimeMysteryThriller
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