The read
It runs a compact 1h 2m.
Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb7/10
20 audience votes
Key crew
- Harry LachmanDirector
- John Francis LarkinScreenplay
Cast
- Sidney TolerCharlie Chan
- Victor Sen YungJimmy Chan
- Lenita LaneLucy Borgia Manderley
- Douglass DumbrillePaul Manderley
- Steven GerayDr. Retling
- Edmund MacDonaldWalter Hartford
- Arleen WhelanBrenda Hartford
- Ethel GriffiesMme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie
- Henry DaniellWatson King
- Richard DerrCarl Detheridge
- Lucien LittlefieldProf. Gleason
- Milton ParsonsArthur Fletcher