The Black Widow (1947)
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.
- Released
- 1947-11-01
- Genres
- Action, Science Fiction
- Runtime
- 180 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon
- TMDB rating
- 5.3/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Bruce Edwards as Steve Colt
- Virginia Lee as Joyce Winters (as Virginia Lindley)
- 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
- Dave Anderson as Porter-Spy
- Theodore Gottlieb as Hitomu
- Virginia Carroll as Dr. Ann Curry
- Gene Roth as John M. Walker
- Sam Flint as Prof. Henry Weston
- LeRoy Mason as Dr. Godfrey