The White Spider (1963)

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

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.

suspensefulnoir-tingedfast-pacedcerebralgrittytensemysteriousstylish

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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