The Spider Woman (1943)

Directed by

Roy William Neill

Genre

crime film, mystery film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 03m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 103 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of mysterious deaths that appear to be suicides. He discovers a criminal mastermind using spiders to commit the murders.

intriguingmysterioussuspensefulclevertenseclassicwitty

What happens

The Spider Woman (alternatively titled Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman and Spider Woman) is a 1943 mystery film starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, the seventh of fourteen such films the pair were involved in. As with all of the Universal Studios films in the series, the film is set in then-present day as opposed to the Victorian setting of the original stories. This film incorporates elements from the 1890 novel The Sign of the Four, as well as the short stories "The Final Problem", "The Adventure of the Empty House", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" and makes explicit reference to "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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