The Black Widow (serial)
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Budget 168,995 USD | 6/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure, Crime Producer M. J. Frankovich Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Spencer Gordon BennetFred C. Brannon Release date November 1, 1947 (1947-11-01) (U.S. serial)1966 (1966) (U.S. TV film) Cast Bruce Edwards (Steve Colt), Virginia Lee (Joyce Winters (as Virginia Lindley)), (Sombra, The Black Widow), (Nick Ward), (Ruth Dayton), I. Stanford Jolley (Dr. Z.V. Jaffa)Similar movies The Green Archer , Mysterious Doctor Satan , Son of Zorro , The Phantom Rider , Zorro's Fighting Legion , The Fighting Devil Dogs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The black widow chapter 10
The Black Widow (1947) is a Republic Movie serial. Thirteen episodes were made.
Contents
- The black widow chapter 10
- The black widow chapter 01
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Stunts
- Special Effects
- Theatrical
- Television
- Chapter titles
- References
The black widow chapter 01
Plot
The Editor of the Daily Clarion newspaper hires amateur criminologist Steve Colt to solve a series of murders, all involving poisonous spider bites.
Meanwhile, King Hitomu has sent his daughter Sombra to the United States to fulfill his plan for global domination. There she poses as a fortune teller and, with a gang of henchmen, attempts to steal a prototype Atomic Rocket Engine.
Cast
Production
The Black Widow was budgeted at $168,995 although the final negative cost was $186,314 (a $17,319, or 10.2%, overspend). It was the most expensive Republic serial of 1947.
It was filmed between 11 April and 8 May 1947. The serial's production number was 1697.
This was one of only four 13-chapter serials to be released by Republic. Three of the four were released in 1947, the only original serials released in that year. The fourth serial of the year was a re-release of the 15-chapter, 1941 serial Jungle Girl. This marked the first time Republic had re-released a serial to add to their first run serial releases.
Stunts
Special Effects
Created by the Lydecker brothers.
Theatrical
The Black Widow's official release date is 1 November 1947, although this is actually the date the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges.
Television
In the early 1950s, The Black Widow was one of fourteen Republic serials edited into a television series. It was broadcast in six 26½-minute episodes.
The Black Widow was one of twenty-six Republic serials re-released as a film on television in 1966. The title of the film was changed to Sombra, the Spider Woman. This version was cut down to 100-minutes in length.
Chapter titles
- Deadly Prophecy (20 min)
- The Stolen Formula (13min 20s)
- Hidden Death (13min 20s)
- Peril in the Sky (13min 20s)
- The Spider's Lair (13min 20s)
- Glass Guillotine (13min 20s)
- Wheels of Death (13min 20s)
- False Information (13min 20s)
- The Spider's Venom (13min 20s) - a re-cap chapter
- The Stolen Corpse (13min 20s)
- Death Dials a Number (13min 20s)
- The Talking Mirror (13min 20s)
- A Life for a Life (13min 20s)
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References
The Black Widow (serial) WikipediaThe Black Widow (serial) IMDb The Black Widow (serial) themoviedb.org