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The Spider's Web is a 1938 Columbia Pictures movie serial based on the popular pulp magazine character The Spider. The first episode of this 15-chapter serial was double-length and directed by serial and western specialist Ray Taylor and by comedy and serial veteran James W. Horne; it was the fifth of the 57 serials released by Columbia. The serial was wildly successful when first released in 1938; it was the most popular serial of that year, according to a tally published in The Motion Picture Herald, and was such an exhibitor favorite that Columbia used it to launch a series of reissues in 1947. A sequel, The Spider Returns, was released in 1941; of the Spider's Web principal actors, only Warren Hull and Kenne Duncan returned in their original roles for the sequel.
Original Release
10/22/1938
US Release
10/22/1938
Cast
Name | Character |
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Warren Hull | Blinky McQuade / Richard Wentworth / The Spider |
Iris Meredith | Nita Van Sloan |
Richard Fiske | Jackson |
Kenne Duncan | Ram Singh |
Forbes Murray | Police Commissioner Stanley Kirk |
Donald Douglas | Jenkins - the Butler / Jenkins |
Marc Lawrence | Steve Harmon |
Charles C. Wilson | Chase |
John Tyrrell | Henchman Grafton / Grafton - Henchman |
Eugene Anderson Jr. | Johnnie Sands |
Directors
Writers
Robert E. Kent, George H. Plympton, Basil Dickey, Mart Ramson, Norvell Page
Cast
Name | Character |
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Warren Hull | Blinky McQuade / Richard Wentworth / The Spider |
Iris Meredith | Nita Van Sloan |
Richard Fiske | Jackson |
Kenne Duncan | Ram Singh |
Forbes Murray | Police Commissioner Stanley Kirk |
Donald Douglas | Jenkins - the Butler / Jenkins |
Marc Lawrence | Steve Harmon |
Charles C. Wilson | Chase |
John Tyrrell | Henchman Grafton / Grafton - Henchman |
Eugene Anderson Jr. | Johnnie Sands |
Ann Doran | Mason's Secretary |
Paul Whitney | Gray - the Banker / Gray |
Beatrice Curtis | Kate Sands |
Gordon Hart | J. Mason |
Byron Foulger | Allen Roberts |
Ernie Alexander | Reporter |
Brooks Benedict | Steve's Driver |
Jack Gardner | Reporter |
John Roy | Police Lab Chemist |
Ernie Adams | Merkel |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Irving Briskin | Executive Producer |
Jack Fier | Producer |