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Rating: 6.5 stars

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The Spider Woman (1943)

Directed by Roy William Neill

Mystery | Crime

Overview

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called “pajama suicides”. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on “The Sign of Four” and the short stories “The Dying Detective”, “The Final Problem”, “The Speckled Band” and “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”.

Rated NR | Length 63 minutes

Actors

Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Gale Sondergaard | Dennis Hoey | Vernon Downing | Alec Craig | Arthur Hohl | Mary Gordon | Teddy Infuhr | Donald Stuart | Harry Cording | Belle Mitchell | Angelo Rossitto | Sylvia Andrew | Marie De Becker | Jimmy Aubrey | Brandon Beach | Frank Benson | Lydia Bilbrook | John Burton | James Carlisle | Jack Deery | George Kirby | Stanley Logan | Wilbur Mack | Edmund Mortimer | William H. O'Brien | John Roche | Gene Roth | Arthur Stenning | Florence Wix | Herschel Graham | Ethelreda Leopold

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Yet another Sherlock Holmes flick from the Basil Rathbone collection that I haven’t seen. Was happy the didn’t do another WWII / espionage story.

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