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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  Harry Lachman

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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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  Henry Daniell
  Watson King
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  Richard Derr
  Carl Detheridge
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  Lucien Littlefield
  Prof. Gleason
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  Milton Parsons
  Arthur Fletcher
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  George Chandler
  The Bus Driver
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  Oliver Blake
  The Hotel Manager
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  Eric Wilton
  The Majordomo
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  Paul Kruger
  (unconfirmed)
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  Tex Phelps
  (scene deleted)