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The White Spider (1963)

The White Spider poster
Original title
Die weiße Spinne
Directed by
Harald Reinl
Genre
crime film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A crime thriller set in London, Hamburg, and West Berlin. The story follows a detective investigating a criminal organization known as the White Spider.

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What happens

The White Spider (German: Die weiße Spinne) is a 1963 West German crime thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor and Horst Frank. It is based on a novel of the same name by the Czech writer Louis Weinert-Wilton. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst H. Albrecht. Location shooting took place in London, Hamburg and West Berlin. It was made and promoted to look like a German Edgar Wallace movie, using the same director and several actors from the Wallace film series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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