The Black Widow (1947)
180 min
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.
- Release date
- November 1, 1947
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Bruce Edwards as Steve Colt
- Virginia Lee as Joyce Winters
- Carol Forman as Sombra, The Black Widow
- Anthony Warde as Nick Ward
- Ramsay Ames as Ruth Dayton
- I. Stanford Jolley as Dr. Z.V. Jaffa
- Theodore Gottlieb as Hitomu
- Virginia Carroll as Dr. Ann Curry [Chs. 6-7]
- Gene Roth as John M. Walker - Newspaper Editor
- Sam Flint as Prof. Henry Weston
Crew
- Spencer Gordon Bennet · Director
- Fred C. Brannon · Director
- Franklin Adreon · Writer
- Basil Dickey · Writer
- Jesse Duffy · Writer
- Sol Shor · Writer
- John MacBurnie · Cinematographer
- Cliff Bell Sr. · Editor
- Sam Starr · Editor