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Castle in the Desert

1942-02-02 | Crime / Mystery
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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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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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Arleen Whelan smoking.

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"Hatter's Castle" is a 1941 British film adaptation of the 1931 novel by A. J. Cronin, which dramatizes the ruin that befalls a Scottish ...

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Charlie discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.'

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The genre of Castle in the Desert is Crime,Mystery,Thriller.
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....
The release date of Castle in the Desert is February 02, 1942.
On October 04, 2024, the IMDB rating of Castle in the Desert is 7.0/10, Rotten Tomato rating is 0/100, Metacritic rating is 0/100, TMDB rating is 7.0/10.
The runtime of Castle in the Desert is 62 minutes.
The casts of Castle in the Desert are Sidney Toler starring as Charlie Chan, Victor Sen Yung starring as Jimmy Chan, Lenita Lane starring as Lucy Borgia Manderley, Douglass Dumbrille starring as Paul Manderley, Steven Geray starring as Dr. Retling, Edmund MacDonald starring as Walter Hartford.
The sequels of Castle in the Desert are Charlie Chan in Honolulu, Charlie Chan in Reno, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, City in Darkness, Charlie Chan in Panama, Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Murder Over New York, Dead Men Tell, Charlie Chan in Rio, Castle in the Desert, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat, Black Magic, Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask, The Scarlet Clue, The Red Dragon, The Shanghai Cobra, Dark Alibi, Shadows Over Chinatown, Dangerous Money, The Trap.
The director of Castle in the Desert is Harry Lachman.