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Movie 1942

Castle in the Desert

7.1/10 ★★★★☆ 62 min US

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...

Cast & Crew

Director: Harry Lachman

Cast: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Lenita Lane, Douglass Dumbrille, Steven Geray, Edmund MacDonald, Arleen Whelan, Ethel Griffies, Henry Daniell, Richard Derr, Lucien Littlefield, Milton Parsons

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