The Spider Woman Strikes Back

The Spider Woman Strikes Back

Theatrical poster.
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Produced by Howard Welsch
Written by Eric Taylor
Starring Gale Sondergaard
Brenda Joyce
Rondo Hatton
Music by Milton Rosen (uncredited)
Cinematography Paul Ivano
Edited by Ray Snyder
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
  • March 22, 1946 (1946-03-22)
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

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

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