Movie · 1947
The Black Widow
Released 1 November 1947 180 min Action / Science Fiction More from 1947 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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. Behind the killings is fortune teller Sombra, a spy from an Asian country intent on world domination, who is determined to pilfer the atomic rocket by luring workers from the project to her parlor and killing them with black widow spider venom when they refuse to cooperate.
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How old were they?
Sam Flint
as Prof. Henry Weston
Forrest Taylor
as Bradley
Ernie Adams
as Blinky
George Chesebro
as J. Carter
I. Stanford Jolley
as Dr. Z.V. Jaffa
Gene Roth
as John M. Walker
LeRoy Mason
as Dr. Godfrey
Theodore Gottlieb
as Hitomu
Anthony Warde
as Nick Ward
Bruce Edwards
as Steve Colt
Virginia Carroll
as Dr. Ann Curry
Keith Richards
as Michael Burns
Carol Forman
as Sombra, The Black Widow
Ramsay Ames
as Ruth Dayton
Virginia Lee
as Joyce Winters (as Virginia Lindley)
Dave Anderson
as Porter-Spy
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The numbers
42years between the oldest and youngest billed
65Sam Flint — oldest on the call sheet
23Virginia Lee — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast