The Spider (1945)

Crime, General Film, Mystery

Missing Trailer

Director: Robert D. Webb

Writer(s): Lowell Brentano (play), Anthony Coldeway, Irving Cummings Jr., Scott Darling, Jo Eisinger, Fulton Oursler (play), Ben Simkhovitch

Starring: Richard Conte, Faye Marlowe, Kurt Kreuger, John Harvey, Martin Kosleck, Mantan Moreland, Walter Sande, Cara Williams, Charles Tannen, Margaret Brayton, Ann Savage, Harry Seymour, Jean Del Val, Odette Vigne, James Flavin, Roy Gordon, William Halligan, Lane Chandler, Eddie Hart, Ruth Clifford, George Beranger, Margo Woode, Fred Aldrich, George Magrill

Synopsis: An ex-cop who is now a private detective is hired by a woman to be the go-between in retrieving an important envelope from her partner. The detective has the partner come to his apartment to give him the envelope, but someone sneaks into his apartment and strangles her while the detective is in another room. Fearful that the police will suspect him of the murder, he brings the woman’s body back to her own apartment, but the police find out and suspect him of the murder anyway. He must find out who is framing him for the murder and why, before the police catch him.

Release Date: December 1945 (USA) | Length: 63 min | Genre: Crime, Mystery | Certificate: Approved