The Spider Woman Strikes Back
| The Spider Woman Strikes Back | |
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 Theatrical poster. | |
| Directed by | Arthur Lubin |
| Written by | Eric Taylor |
| Produced by | Howard Welsch |
| Starring | Gale Sondergaard Brenda Joyce Rondo Hatton |
| Cinematography | Paul Ivano |
| Edited by | Ray Snyder |
| Music by | Milton Rosen (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 59 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Spider Woman Strikes Back is a 1946 horror film starring Gale Sondergaard. Despite the similar title and role played by Sondergaard, the film is not a sequel to the Sherlock Holmes film, The Spider Woman. In The Spider Woman, Sondergaard's character is named Adrea Spedding.[1] This time it is Zenobia Dollard.[2]
Plot
A young woman comes to a small rural town to serve as secretary for a blind woman, the town's wealthiest person. The town is awash in mystery owing to the inexplicable deaths of local ranchers' cattle. The young woman becomes entangled in a web of horror as she discovers that her employer, aided by the hideously deformed household servant, have used the blood of her predecessors to create a death serum when it is mixed with spider venom - and that her own blood is now being harvested at night, while she is in a drugged sleep, to continue the experiment.
Cast
- Gale Sondergaard as Zenobia Dollard
- Brenda Joyce as Jean Kingsley
- Kirby Grant as Hal Wentley
- Milburn Stone as Mr. Moore
- Rondo Hatton as Mario the Monster Man
- Hobart Cavanaugh as Bill Stapleton
- Tom Daly as Sam Julian
- Norman Leavitt as Tom
- Guy Beach as Cal
- Hans Herbert as Angry German Rancher (uncredited)
- Horace Murphy as Angry Older Rancher (uncredited)
- William Sundholm as Eddie, Bus Driver (uncredited)
- Guy Wilkerson as Lem - Rancher (uncredited
Also named in the film's screen cast were actresses Ruth Robinson, Adda Gleason, Lois Austin and Eula Guy. However, their roles were omitted from the final cut, and may even have not been filmed.
References
External links
- The Spider Woman Strikes Back at IMDb
- The Spider Woman Strikes Back at the TCM Movie Database
- Review of film at Variety
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