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...

Cast & crew

Sidney TolerCharlie Chan

Victor Sen YungJimmy Chan

Lenita LaneLucy Borgia Manderley

Douglass DumbrillePaul Manderley

Steven GerayDr. Retling

Edmund MacDonaldWalter Hartford

Arleen WhelanBrenda Hartford

Ethel GriffiesMme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie

Henry DaniellWatson King

Richard DerrCarl Detheridge

Lucien LittlefieldProf. Gleason

Milton ParsonsArthur Fletcher