Castle in the Desert (1942)

Dr. Retling: They say poison is a woman's weapon.

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Watson King: [after Jimmy falls down the dungeon stars in a suit of armor] You still alive?
Jimmy Chan: I guess so.
Watson King: [Sarcastically] Just bent, bruised, and bewildered, ay?

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Lily, Mme. Saturnia: There's death out in that desert.
Jimmy Chan: Huh? What do you mean? I mean how do you know?
Lily, Mme. Saturnia: The stars! They see everything!
Jimmy Chan: In the daytime?
Lily, Mme. Saturnia: [With disdain] No, at night!

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Naming the residents of the isolated castle Manderley is an obvious reference the the mansion of Rebecca from two years earlier.
The thirtieth of forty-seven Charlie Chan movies.
The exterior of the hotel would later be dressed as the saloon for The Ox-Bow Incident.
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