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The Spider (1931)

The Spider poster
Directed by
Kenneth MacKenna
Genre
mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
59 min
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is accused of a murder he did not commit. He must find the real killer before the police catch him.

old-fashionedmysterioustensetalkytheatricalpre-codenoir-ish

What happens

The Spider is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Kenneth MacKenna and William Cameron Menzies and starring Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel and John Arledge. It was released on September 27, 1931, by Fox Film Corporation. It was based on the 1927 play The Spider by Fulton Oursler and Lowell Brentano. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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