THE BLACK WIDOW
13 CHAPTER SERIAL
1947

PLOT:
The Editor of 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.
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 the prototype Atomic Rocket Engine by luring workers from the project to her parlour and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.

CAST:
Bruce Edwards ... Steve Colt
Virginia Lindley ... Joyce Winters
Carol Forman ... Sombra, The Black Widow
Anthony Warde ... Nick Ward
Ramsay Ames ... Ruth Dayton
I. Stanford Jolley ... Dr. Z.V. Jaffa
Theodore Gottlieb ... Hitomu
Virginia Carroll ... Dr. Ann Curry
Gene Stutenroth ... J.M. Walker - Newspaper Editor
Sam Flint ... Prof. Henry Weston
Tom Steele ... Bard / Jack / Blair
Dale Van Sickel ... Bill / Hodges / Smith / Bass
LeRoy Mason ... Dr. Godfrey
Forrest Taylor ... Bradley (Gang Lawyer)
Ernie Adams ... Blinky

CHAPTERS:
1. Deadly Prophecy
2. The Stolen Formula
3. Hidden Death
4. Peril in the Sky
5. The Spider's Lair
6. Glass Guillotine
7. Wheels of Death
8. False Information
9. The Spider's Venom
10.The Stolen Corpse
11.Death Dials a Number
12.The Talking Mirror
13.A Life for a Life

RUNNING TIME: 180 MIN