Castle in the Desert is a 1942 film featuring the Chinese detective Charlie Chan. It was the eleventh film to feature Sidney Toler as the title character, and the last made by 20th Century Fox. The series continued with Toler, though under much reduced circumstances, at Monogram Pictures.
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Directed by | Harry Lachman |
Written by | Earl Derr Biggers (characters) John Larkin |
Produced by | Ralph Dietrich |
Starring | Sidney Toler |
Cinematography | Virgil Miller |
Edited by | John Brady |
Music by | Emil Newman |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | February 27, 1942 |
Running time | 62 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Mrs. Manderley, an eccentric descendant of the Borgias lives in a castle in the middle of the Mojave Desert with her husband Paul Manderley, a reclusive scholarly millionaire. Someone is killed after being poisoned. Paul tries to cover up the murder in which Charlie Chan investigates. In addition to Paul Manderley and his wife (who may be insane and not responsible for her actions) other suspects include:
The clues include:
Aiding and hindering Chan's investigation is his Number Two son Jimmy, who is on leave with the U.S. Army, and decides to get involved to help his father solve the case, much to the senior Chan's annoyance.
The location is loosely based on Scotty's Castle, a Spanish Revival style villa built by a Chicago millionaire as a vacation home in Death Valley.
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