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Castle in the Desert

  • 1942
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7.0/10
1.5 हज़ार
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Douglass Dumbrille, Lenita Lane, and Sidney Toler in Castle in the Desert (1942)
Mystery

अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंCharlie Chan investigates apparent poisonings at a mystery mansion in the Mojave Desert.Charlie Chan investigates apparent poisonings at a mystery mansion in the Mojave Desert.Charlie Chan investigates apparent poisonings at a mystery mansion in the Mojave Desert.

  • निर्देशक
    • Harry Lachman
  • लेखक
    • John Francis Larkin
    • Earl Derr Biggers
  • स्टार
    • Sidney Toler
    • Arleen Whelan
    • Richard Derr
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    7.0/10
    1.5 हज़ार
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    • निर्देशक
      • Harry Lachman
    • लेखक
      • John Francis Larkin
      • Earl Derr Biggers
    • स्टार
      • Sidney Toler
      • Arleen Whelan
      • Richard Derr
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    बदलाव करें
    Sidney Toler
    Sidney Toler
    • Charlie Chan
    Arleen Whelan
    Arleen Whelan
    • Brenda Hartford
    Richard Derr
    Richard Derr
    • Carl Detheridge
    Douglass Dumbrille
    Douglass Dumbrille
    • Paul Manderley
    • (as Douglas Dumbrille)
    Henry Daniell
    Henry Daniell
    • Watson King
    Edmund MacDonald
    Edmund MacDonald
    • Walter Hartford
    Victor Sen Yung
    Victor Sen Yung
    • Jimmy Chan
    • (as Sen Yung)
    Lenita Lane
    Lenita Lane
    • Lucy Manderley
    Ethel Griffies
    Ethel Griffies
    • Madame Saturnia
    Milton Parsons
    Milton Parsons
    • Arthur Fletcher
    Steven Geray
    Steven Geray
    • Dr. Retling
    • (as Steve Geray)
    Lucien Littlefield
    Lucien Littlefield
    • Gleason
    Oliver Blake
    Oliver Blake
    • Wigley - Hotel Owner
    • (बिना क्रेडिट के)
    George Chandler
    George Chandler
    • Bus Driver
    • (बिना क्रेडिट के)
    Paul Kruger
    Paul Kruger
    • Bodyguard
    • (बिना क्रेडिट के)
    Tex Phelps
    Tex Phelps
    • Prospector
    • (बिना क्रेडिट के)
    Eric Wilton
    • Wilson
    • (बिना क्रेडिट के)
    • निर्देशक
      • Harry Lachman
    • लेखक
      • John Francis Larkin
      • Earl Derr Biggers
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    Eighty-Days

    Charlie Chan Should Be An Asian Role Model

    I've never understood why some folk in the Asian community don't like Charlie Chan.

    A reviewer here said he cringed at the racist comment of an innkeeper who wouldn't let Charlie sit on his porch. Well, gee...in 1940 America that was common behavior. But Charlie Chan doesn't throw a fit, he gets on with the job of investigating murder and at the end of the film shows himself to be smarter than all the white folk who looked down on him.

    Doesn't that make him a great role model? That was the case in many of the Charlie Chan films. The character was created at a time when Orientals were always villains, nothing more. Earl Derr Biggers created Chan to be a hero. He is brighter than everyone else he meets, for all that he doesn't speak grammatical English. Not because he's stupid, but because he's an immigrant from Hong Kong! Lesson? Just because someone's English language skills are not up to snuff doesn't mean that they can't run rings around you intellectually.

    True also to the tenor of the times, Chan has to have "comic relief" - either his fully Americanized sons (and occasionally daughter) who speak English perfectly and are played by Asians who deserve to have their work seen - or by African Americans Stepin Fetchit or Mantan Moreland. I admit I do have problems watching those characters - I don't think I would have thought their actions funny then, nor do I think their funny now, but again, they're part and parcel of the times.

    Having said all that, Warner Oland is the only Charlie Chan for me. I've never really cared for Sidney Toler's version. The plot is rather labyrynthine, but fun for all that. For the most part, anyway!
    7bensonmum2

    No phone! No lights! No motor cars!

    While I admit that the Chan films of Warner Oland are, as a group, superior to those of Sidney Toler, that doesn't mean that some of the Toler films aren't rock solid and as good individually as anything Oland made. Three that immediately come to mind are Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, and this film, Castle in the Desert. (By the way, why isn't the title Charlie Chan and the Castle in the Desert? It would have made sense to me.) In Castle in the Desert, Charlie is summoned to a strange, isolated castle in the middle of the Mojave Desert. But no one in the house will admit to having sent of Chan. His presence is, however, quickly needed when in no time at all Charlie finds himself up to his elbows in murder, poison, deadly arrows, red herrings, and suspects galore. What could be more fun!

    I've seen someone use this phrase before to describe a Charlie Chan film and I think it fits Castle in the Desert – "It's a crackling good mystery". As I've indicated, all of the necessary ingredients for a fun outing with Chan are here. In fact, Castle in the Desert is really more like two mysteries in one. While the solution to the first is fairly obvious, it's still a lot of fun and just an appetizer for the more difficult and dangerous mystery to come. This was Toler's last Chan film for Fox and, by the time this one was made, Toler could have played the role in his sleep. He seems so at ease with the character. The rest of the cast is enjoyable with Henry Daniell and, one of my favorites, Douglass Dumbrille standing out in support. Another bonus for Castle in the Desert is that Victor Sen Yung as #2 son Jimmy Chan isn't anywhere near as annoying as he is in some of the other Chan films.

    Overall, Castle in the Desert is a nice finale to the Chan films at Fox. Nothing that would come later at Monogram is anywhere close to matching it. I've got no problem rating this one a strong 7/10 verging on an 8/10.
    7AlsExGal

    Chan at Fox goes out on a high note...

    This being the final entry in the Charlie Chan mystery series to be produced by 20th Century-Fox. Chan (Sidney Toler) finds himself summoned to a medieval-style castle built in the middle of the desert in the western U.S. It belongs to eccentric researcher Paul Manderlay (Douglass Dumbrille) and his wife Lucy (Lenita Lane) who happens to be a descendant of the infamous Borgias. They have a house full of guests, one or more of whom seems intent on killing them all.

    This is an odd installment of the series, with a lot of comedy and an "old dark house" setting. The characters are all strange enough to hold one's interest, and Toler and Sen Yung's interplay is still fun. Fox decided to end the series with this one, stating a desire to cut back on film production during the war, but many feel it was also due to the Asian lead character, who, despite being Chinese-American, would still be resented by those with anti-Japanese sentiments due to the war. Toler himself would eventually buy the rights and take them to the poverty row Monogram company, where a new batch of Chan films started in 1944 with Charlie Chan in the Secret Service.
    8binapiraeus

    A most CLASSIC isolated old mansion!

    Charlie Chan, who's just planning a little vacation with son Jimmy, gets a letter from a Mrs. Manderley, née Lucrezia Borgia (!), who summons him urgently to Manderley castle because she fears for her life... And THERE we've got a classic isolated old mansion if ever there was one: Mr. Manderley, a famous historian, has built his castle in the middle of the Mojave desert, complete with a vault full of poison bottles and Renaissance torture instruments, with no electricity and no phone - and very soon the distributor of the only car available is stolen as well, which leaves the persons present in TOTAL isolation - except for Jimmy, of course, who finds his way to the castle together with a strange old lady with spiritualistic gifts, Madame Saturnia...

    And very soon it is revealed that recently, a genealogist who wanted to investigate on Mrs. Manderley's Borgia family tree (although she seems perfectly alright, her step-brother was a mad poisoner...) was poisoned in the castle - but strangely, Madame Saturnia insists that 'the finger of Isis has never touched this house'... yet...

    She also warns Charlie to 'watch out for an arrow' - and very soon, arrows from an old crossbow start flying through the castle halls, dangerously near to our detective hero! And the suspects are plenty: Mrs. Manderley (who insists she didn't write the note to Charlie, and that her step-brother is dead; another thing Madame Saturnia denies vehemently...), Mr. Manderley, who wears a mask over one side of his face (a result of an accident, he explains), Dr. Retling, whose death certificate for the genealogist is being questioned by private eye Fletcher, Mr. Hartford, Manderley's attorney, who together with his wife seems to be seeking to take control of the Manderley fortune, and sculptor Watson King, who reveals himself as yet another private detective hired by Mrs. Manderley... Make your choice!

    The creepy atmosphere of the old castle of course makes this entry in the 'Charlie Chan' series another immensely entertaining whodunit; and the cast is also superb: apart from distinguished British star Henry Daniell as Watson King and Douglas Dumbrille as Manderley, we also meet again with some of the cast members of that magnificent Charlie Chan movie "Dead Men Tell" from the previous year: Milton Parsons, Lenita Lane - and Ethel Griffies, giving once again a FORMIDABLE performance as the mysterious Madame Saturnia. Jimmy as always adds lots of fun, disguised in a medieval armor - a great mystery movie that shouldn't be missed by any fan of the genre!
    7csteidler

    Enjoyable Chan mystery with average plot but plenty of atmosphere

    Lucy Manderley makes a brusque announcement: "Two things we never discuss in this house—my family and Paul's accident." –Her husband Paul wears a mask that covers half of his face; Lucy herself is descended from the Borgias of Renaissance Italy, renowned for power and poison. "This house" is the Manderley estate, a lonely medieval-style castle stuck out in the desert.

    Charlie Chan is on hand at said estate—but the urgent invitation he answered was apparently a fake. Has Mr. Chan been summoned to witness a murder or provide an alibi? Sidney Toler is steady as always as he attempts to find out.

    Eerie music, dimly lit castle sets and some good shadowy camera work create an appropriately spooky atmosphere for this fairly standard but highly enjoyable Chan mystery.

    Among the entertaining cast on hand at the old dark castle are Douglass Dumbrille as the odd Mr. Manderley and Lenita Lane as his nervous wife; Henry Daniell as mysterious sculptor Watson King; and Ethel Griffies as Madame Saturnia, a spooky soothsayer whose predictions all involve death.

    Sen Yung also offers assistance as Jimmy Chan. On a week's leave from the Army, Jimmy tells his Pop that "What I'd like now is the relaxation of a good murder case." He finds a suit of armor a good hiding place to spy from, but keeps getting pushed over and tumbling down flights of stairs….

    The plot involves a couple of murders by poison—pointing suspicion at Lucy Manderley, the only possibly-unbalanced Borgia in the group. Other elements adding to the mystery include a sleeping potion like the one Shakespeare's Juliet took, and the early disappearance of the only vehicle's distributor, leaving the entire group stranded and cut off.

    Overall, it's a fairly standard Charlie Chan: a decent mystery plot featuring a few chills, a fair mix of comedy, and a bit of action as well. Very entertaining for fans.

    इस तरह के और

    Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
    7.1
    Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
    Charlie Chan in Rio
    6.9
    Charlie Chan in Rio
    Dead Men Tell
    6.9
    Dead Men Tell
    Murder Over New York
    6.9
    Murder Over New York
    Charlie Chan in Panama
    7.1
    Charlie Chan in Panama
    Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
    7.0
    Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
    City in Darkness
    6.5
    City in Darkness
    Charlie Chan in Reno
    7.0
    Charlie Chan in Reno
    Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
    7.2
    Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
    Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
    6.3
    Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
    Charlie Chan in Honolulu
    6.7
    Charlie Chan in Honolulu
    Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
    6.2
    Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

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    • ट्रिविया
      This was the last Charlie Chan movie produced by 20th Century Fox Studios, because America's entry into World War II in December 1941, shortly after this movie was filmed, made the studio cut back on film productions for the war effort.
    • गूफ़
      Paul Manderley, supposedly an expert on the Italian Rennaissance, mispronounces Cesare Borgia's first name, making it sound like Caesar as in Julius Caesar.
    • भाव

      Lily, Mme. Saturnia: You have enemies, Mr. Chan?

      Charlie Chan: Man without enemies like dog without fleas.

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      Edited into Who Dunit Theater: Charlie Chan Castle in the Desert (2021)

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      • 27 फ़रवरी 1942 (यूनाइटेड स्टेट्स)
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