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The Spider's Web (1960)

The Spider's Web poster
Directed by
Godfrey Grayson
Genre
mystery film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
12
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A diplomat's wife finds a dead body in her drawing room and tries to cover it up. She enlists her family and guests to help create an alibi as a police inspector investigates.

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What happens

The Spider's Web (also known as The Spider's Web by Agatha Christie) is a 1960 British mystery film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Glynis Johns, John Justin, Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert. It was adapted by Albert G. Miller and Eldon Howard from the 1954 play Spider's Web by Agatha Christie, and was a rare Technicolor 'A' feature from the Danzigers. It was remade as a television play starring Penelope Keith, broadcast on BBC Two on 26 December 1982. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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