Castle in the Desert
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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An eccentric historian and his wife live in an isolated castle-like mansion in the Mojave Desert. When a guest suddenly collapses, Charlie Chan is invited to investigate and deterines that he was poisoned. Then all communication with the outside world is sabotaged, and the murderer is free to strike again. 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 Steven Geray as Dr. Retling Lucien Littlefield as Gleason I colorized this using AI software that doesn't always get the colors right, but I think it looks fairly natural. Hopefully a more professional job will be done someday.
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- Director
- Harry Lachman
- Starring
- Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Lenita Lane, Douglass Dumbrille, Steven Geray, Edmund MacDonald, Arleen Whelan, Ethel Griffies
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