The Spider's Web

The Spider's Web (1938)

"Beware, Spider! I Have You Marked For Death with The Most Fiendish Weapons Ever Concieved By The Human Brain!"

Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.

Date of release
1938-10-21
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
5h 0m
Genres
Action, Crime
Director
James W. Horne, Ray Taylor
Collection
The Spider Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

The Spider's Web is a 1938 Columbia Pictures movie serial based on the popular pulp magazine character The Spider. It was the fifth of the 57 serials released by Columbia.

Production

The Spider's Web was the first serial to be adapted from a pulp magazine. The original pulp magazine stories were too violent for the motion picture production code, but The Spider's Web "did manage to suggest [their] frantic pace". Some changes were made beyond toning down the violence.

The film was produced by Columbia Pictures executive Jack Fier, without screen credit. The screenplay was written by serial scenarists George H. Plympton and Basil Dickey, feature-film writer Robert E. Kent, and newspaperman Martie Ramson, whose hard-boiled short stories were syndicated in 1935 and 1936. The direction was shared by action specialist Ray Taylor and veteran serial director James W. Horne.

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