The Black Widow

(1947)

★ 5.3 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Year: 1947

Runtime: 180 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon

Cast: Bruce Edwards, Virginia Lee, Carol Forman, Энтони Варде, Ramsay Ames, I. Stanford Jolley, Dave Anderson, Theodore Gottlieb, Virginia Carroll, Gene Roth

Plot

The Daily Clarion hires detective story writer Steve Colt to investigate the deaths of a group of scientists working on an atomic rocket development project. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.