The Spider Woman Strikes Back [Blu-ray]

Director: Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin

Overview

Gale Sondergaard more or less recreates her role as the homicidal "Spider Woman" that she first essayed in the 1943 Sherlock Holmes film of the same name. This time Ms. Sondergaard plays a wealthy rancher who advertises for a young woman to serve as her secretary/companion. Several girls have gone to her ranch to apply for the job; none have returned. When Brenda Joyce arrives to take the job, she uncovers Sondergaard's secret. The crafty villainess has been draining the blood of young women, using the blood to feed her huge carnivorous plants, cultivating a poison from those plants, then using the poison to kill the cattle on all neighboring ranches. All this so that she can bankrupt her rivals and claim their land, which she thinks is rightfully hers! The film is as loopy as it sounds, but Spider Woman Strikes Back was one of Gale Sondergaard's most popular films; when asked years later what she thought of it, she replied airily "It didn't kill me." Spider Woman Strikes Back costars another Universal horror-film icon, the tragically deformed Rondo Hatton.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/02/2021
UPC:	0738329256487
Original Release:	1946
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	0:59:00
Sales rank:	26,880

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Brenda Joyce	Jean Kingsley
Gale Sondergaard	Miss Zenobia Dollard
Kirby Grant	Hal Wentley
Rondo Hatton	Mario the Monster Man
Milburn Stone	Moore
Hobart Cavanaugh	Mr. Stapleton
Norman Leavitt	Tom
Eula Guy	Molly Corvin
Tom Daly	Sam Julian
Lois Austin	Jinnie Hawks
Ruth Robinson	Mrs. Wentley
Adda Gleason	Martha

Technical Credits

Arthur Lubin	Director
Howard Welsch	Producer