The Black Widow

The Black Widow (1947) is a action, science fiction film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon rated 5.3/10.

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

Bruce Edwards

Steve Colt

Virginia Lee

Joyce Winters (as Virginia Lindley)

Carol Forman

Sombra, The Black Widow

Anthony Warde

Nick Ward

Ramsay Ames

Ruth Dayton

I. Stanford Jolley

Dr. Z.V. Jaffa

Dave Anderson

Porter-Spy

Theodore Gottlieb

Hitomu

Virginia Carroll

Dr. Ann Curry

Gene Roth

John M. Walker

Sam Flint

Prof. Henry Weston

LeRoy Mason

Dr. Godfrey