The Black Widow
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.
Cast
Bruce EdwardsSteve ColtVirginia LeeJoyce Winters (as Virginia Lindley)
Carol FormanSombra, The Black Widow
Anthony WardeNick Ward
Ramsay AmesRuth Dayton
I. Stanford JolleyDr. Z.V. JaffaDave AndersonPorter-Spy
Theodore GottliebHitomu
Virginia CarrollDr. Ann Curry
Gene RothJohn M. Walker
Sam FlintProf. Henry Weston
LeRoy MasonDr. GodfreyCrew
DirectorSpencer Gordon Bennet
Details
Release DateNovember 1, 1947
LanguagesEnglish
StudiosRepublic Pictures
