7.6/10 1,022 votes

Released:
1942-02-02

Overview:
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...

Director:
Harry Lachman

Runtime:
1h 2min

Genre:
Crime, Mystery, Thriller

• Cast:
• 
  Sidney Toler
  as
  Charlie Chan
• 
  Victor Sen Yung
  as
  Jimmy Chan
• 
  Lenita Lane
  as
  Lucy Borgia Manderley
• 
  Douglass Dumbrille
  as
  Paul Manderley
• 
  Steven Geray
  as
  Dr. Retling