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The Spider's Web (1938)
About this film
A criminologist uses two fake identities, one an underworld habitué and the other a terrifying masked figure known as The Spider. Aided by his faithful Sikh servant, he is in a desperate battle against The Octopus, a masked villain whose outlaw gang is sabotaging the nation's transportation system as the first part of his plan to gain control of the entire country. 15-chapter cliffhanger serial, colorized Warren Hull as Richard Wentworth / The Spider / Blinky McQuade Iris Meredith as Nita Van Sloan Richard Fiske as Jackson Kenne Duncan as Ram Singh Forbes Murray as Police Commissioner Stanley Kirk Donald Douglas as Jenkins - the Butler Marc Lawrence as Steve Harmon Charles C. Wilson as Chase (as Charles Wilson) John Tyrrell as Grafton - Henchman Eugene Anderson Jr. as Johnnie Sands Ann Doran as Mason's Secretary
Directors & creators
Columbia Pictures
Subjects
cliffhanger serial, colorized, crime drama, costumed hero