The Black Widow.

Duration: 2 reels

Genre: serial

Year Published: 1947

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Bruce Edwards

Description: The Editor of the Daily Clarion newspaper hires amateur criminologist Steve Colt to solve a series of murders involving poisonous spider bites. King Hitomu has sent his daughter Sombra to the United States to fulfill his plan for global domination. She poses as a fortune teller and attempts to steal a prototype Atomic Rocket Engine.

Complete Record: THE BLACK WIDOW. Republic Productions, Inc., c1947. 2 reels each, sd., b&w, 35mm. © Republic Pictures Corp.; no. 1–5, 28Jul47; LP1164; no. 6–13, 2Sep47; LP1217. Credits: Associate producer, Mike Frankovich; directors, Spencer Bennet, Fred C. Brannon; original screenplay, Franklin Adreon, Basil Dickey, Jesse Duffy, Sol Shor; music director, Mort Glickman; film editors, Cliff Bell, Sam Starr. Cast: Bruce Edwards, Virginia Lindley. 1. Deadly Prophecy. 2. The Stolen Formula. 3. Hidden Death. 4. Peril in the Sky. 5. The Spider's Lair. 6. The Glass Guillotine. 7. Wheels of Death. 8. False Information. 9. The Spider's Venom. 10. The Stolen Corpse. 11. Death Dials a Number. 12. The Talking Mirror. 13. A Life for a Life.

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