The Black Widow

The Black Widow

180 mins | Action, Science Fiction | Nov. 1, 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.

The Black Widow

180 mins | Action, Science Fiction | Nov. 1, 1947

The Black Widow
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Republic Pictures
Original title The Black Widow
Directors Fred C. Brannon, Spencer Gordon Bennet
Writers

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 (uncredited)