The Black Widow
6.4
The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development project. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.
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Cast
25 people
Bruce Edwards
Steve Colt
Also in
The Fallen Sparrow
Dangerous Money
Virginia Lee
Joyce Winters (as Virginia Lindley)
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Parole, Inc.
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer!
Carol Forman
Sombra, The Black Widow
Also in
Superman
Blackhawk
Anthony Warde
Nick Ward
Also in
Buck Rogers
Man With Two Lives
Ramsay Ames
Ruth Dayton
Known for
The Mummy's Ghost
I. Stanford Jolley
Dr. Z.V. Jaffa
Known for
The Haunted Palace
The Baron of Arizona
Dave Anderson
Porter-Spy
Also in
Lip Service
I, Jane Doe
Theodore Gottlieb
Hitomu
Known for
The Hobbit
The 'Burbs
Virginia Carroll
Dr. Ann Curry
Known for
Waterloo Bridge
Gene Roth
John M. Walker
Known for
Earth vs. the Spider
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Sam Flint
Prof. Henry Weston
Known for
Batman
Somewhere in the Night
LeRoy Mason
Dr. Godfrey
Also in
Texas Terror
Rainbow Valley
Spencer Gordon Bennet Director · Fred C. Brannon Director John MacBurnie Cinematographer
United States release November 1, 1947 · Produced in United States
Production
Republic Pictures
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 1, 1947
Theatrical
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