The Black Widow
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1947-11-01
Runtime: 180 mins
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon
Spoken language: English
Genres: Action, Science Fiction
Original title: The Black Widow
Production Companies: Republic Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Bruce Edwards
Virginia Lee
Carol Forman
Anthony Warde
Ramsay Ames
I. Stanford Jolley
Dave Anderson
Theodore Gottlieb
Virginia Carroll
Gene Roth
Sam Flint
LeRoy Mason
Forrest Taylor
Ernie Adams
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