The Black Widow

The Black Widow (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.

Date of release
1947-11-01
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (5)
Runtime
3h 0m
Genres
Action, Science Fiction
Director
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon

Casting

Interesting facts

The Black Widow (1947) is a thirteen-chapter Republic serial film.

Production

The Black Widow was budgeted at $168,995 although the final negative cost was $186,314 (a $17,319, or 10.2%, overspend). It was the most expensive Republic serial of 1947.

It was filmed between 11 April and 8 May 1947. The serial's production number was 1697.

It was one of only four 13-chapter serials to be released by Republic. Three of the four were released in 1947, the only original serials released in that year. The fourth serial of the year was a re-release of the 15-chapter, 1941 serial Jungle Girl. This marked the first time Republic had re-released a serial to add to their first run serial releases.

Tom Steele as Steve Colt (doubling Bruce Edwards)

Dale Van Sickel as Nick Ward (doubling Anthony Warde)

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