The Black Widow
4.9
180 minutes
11/1/1947
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 List
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
Forrest Taylor
as Bradley
Ernie Adams
as Blinky
Keith Richards
as Michael Burns
George Chesebro
as J. Carter
Frank Lackteen
as A. Kabob
Carey Loftin
as Spike
Ted Mapes
as Slade
Jack O'Shea
as Finnegan
Gil Perkins
as Burke
John Phillips
as District Attorney Mark
Stanley Price
as Filmore Hagen
Larry Steers
as Dr. Harcourt
Ken Terrell
as Mendoza