Castle in the Desert

(1942)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 20 votes

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 1942

Runtime: 62 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Harry Lachman

Cast: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Lenita Lane, Дагласс Дамбрилл, Steven Geray, Edmund MacDonald, Arleen Whelan, Ethel Griffies, Henry Daniell, Richard Derr

Plot

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...