Castle in the Desert

The story

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...

In the same saga

Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) Collection

In release order

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

1938

Charlie Chan in Reno

1939

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

1939

City in Darkness

1939

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Charlie Chan in Panama

1940

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

1940

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

1940

Murder Over New York

1940

Dead Men Tell

1941

Charlie Chan in Rio

1941

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Castle in the Desert

1942

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

1944

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

1944

Black Magic

1944

The Jade Mask

1945

The Scarlet Clue

1945

The Red Dragon

1945

The Shanghai Cobra

1945

Dark Alibi

1946

Shadows Over Chinatown

1946

Dangerous Money

1946

The Trap

1946

Cast

S Sidney TolerCharlie Chan V Victor Sen YungJimmy Chan L Lenita LaneLucy Borgia Manderley D Douglass DumbrillePaul Manderley S Steven GerayDr. Retling E Edmund MacDonaldWalter Hartford A Arleen WhelanBrenda Hartford E Ethel GriffiesMme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie H Henry DaniellWatson King R Richard DerrCarl Detheridge L Lucien LittlefieldProf. Gleason M Milton ParsonsArthur Fletcher

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G George ChandlerThe Bus Driver O Oliver BlakeThe Hotel Manager E Eric WiltonThe Majordomo P Paul Kruger(unconfirmed) T Tex Phelps(scene deleted)