Movie · 1942
Castle in the Desert
Released 2 February 1942 62 min Crime / Mystery / Thriller More from 1942 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Sidney Toler
as Charlie Chan
Ethel Griffies
as Mme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie
Eric Wilton
as The Majordomo
Douglass Dumbrille
as Paul Manderley
Henry Daniell
as Watson King
Lucien Littlefield
as Prof. Gleason
George Chandler
as The Bus Driver
Lenita Lane
as Lucy Borgia Manderley
Steven Geray
as Dr. Retling
Milton Parsons
as Arthur Fletcher
Oliver Blake
as The Hotel Manager
Edmund MacDonald
as Walter Hartford
Arleen Whelan
as Brenda Hartford
Victor Sen Yung
as Jimmy Chan
Richard Derr
as Carl Detheridge
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The numbers
44years between the oldest and youngest billed
67Sidney Toler — oldest on the call sheet
23Richard Derr — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast