The Black Widow

Nov 1, 1947

3h 0m

★ 4.9

Overview

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.

Genres

Action

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

Steve Colt

Bruce Edwards

Joyce Winters (as Virginia Lindley)

Virginia Lee

Sombra, The Black Widow

Carol Forman

Nick Ward

Anthony Warde

Ruth Dayton

Ramsay Ames

Dr. Z.V. Jaffa

I. Stanford Jolley

Porter-Spy

Dave Anderson

Hitomu

Theodore Gottlieb

Dr. Ann Curry

Virginia Carroll

John M. Walker

Gene Roth

Prof. Henry Weston

Sam Flint

Dr. Godfrey

LeRoy Mason

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