Castle in the Desert
Synopsis
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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Edited by John BradyShot by Virgil Miller
Also known as
- Charlie Chan: Das Schloss in der Wüstede
- Das Schloß in der Wüstede
- El castillo del desiertoes
- Charlie Chan e il castello nel desertoit
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16 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Sidney Toler
as Charlie Chan
Arleen Whelan
as Brenda Hartford
Richard Derr
as Carl Detheridge
Douglass Dumbrille
as Paul Manderley
Henry Daniell
as Watson King
Edmund Macdonald
as Walter Hartford
Victor Sen Yung
as Jimmy Chan
Lenita Lane
as Lucy Manderley
Ethel Griffies
as Madame Saturnia
Milton Parsons
as Arthur Fletcher
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