The last Charlie Chan movie made at 20th Century Fox before the series was booted off to Monogram. Its directed by Harry Lachman so it has a heavier quasi horror movie feel - but just to keep things weird it's also got a Western element, plus some house of horrors comedy.
Most of the action takes place at a castle in the middle of the Mojave Desert (based on a real one apparently) where the locals don't trust what's going on... And for good reason since it's very odd and straight out of The Cat and the Canary. There's Henry Daniell and Douglas Dumbrille, a batty old lady, some young lovers, battles over wills, a person obsessed with the Borgias, people running around in knight armour, a chamber of horrors.
It's all kind of nutty and actually a lot of fun - I went with this one, thought it was good.
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