The Spider Woman Strikes Back

The Spider Woman Strikes Back
Theatrical poster.
Directed by	Arthur Lubin
Produced by	Howard Welsch
Written by	Eric Taylor
Starring	Gale Sondergaard Brenda Joyce Rondo Hatton
Music by	Milton Rosen (uncredited)
Cinematography	Paul Ivano
Edited by	Ray Snyder
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	March 22, 1946 (1946-03-22)
Running time	59 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Spider Woman Strikes Back is a 1946 horror film starring Gale Sondergaard. Despite the similar title and role played by Sondergaard, the film is not a sequel to the Sherlock Holmes film, The Spider Woman. In The Spider Woman, Sondergaard's character is named Adrea Spedding.^[1] This time it is Zenobia Dollard.^[2]

Plot

A young woman comes to a small rural town to serve as secretary for a blind woman, the town's wealthiest person. The town is awash in mystery owing to the inexplicable deaths of local ranchers' cattle. The young woman becomes entangled in a web of horror as she discovers that her employer, aided by the hideously deformed household servant, have used the blood of her predecessors to create a death serum when it is mixed with spider venom - and that her own blood is now being harvested at night, while she is in a drugged sleep, to continue the experiment.

Cast

Gale Sondergaard as Zenobia Dollard
Brenda Joyce as Jean Kingsley
Kirby Grant as Hal Wentley
Milburn Stone as Mr. Moore
Rondo Hatton as Mario the Monster Man
Hobart Cavanaugh as Bill Stapleton
Tom Daly as Sam Julian
Norman Leavitt as Tom
Guy Beach as Cal
Hans Herbert as Angry German Rancher (uncredited)
Horace Murphy as Angry Older Rancher (uncredited)
William Sundholm as Eddie, Bus Driver (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson as Lem - Rancher (uncredited

Also named in the film's screen cast were actresses Ruth Robinson, Adda Gleason, Lois Austin and Eula Guy. However, their roles were omitted from the final cut, and may even have not been filmed.

References

External links

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The Spider Woman Strikes Back at the Internet Movie Database
The Spider Woman Strikes Back at the TCM Movie Database
Review of film at Variety

Films directed by Arthur Lubin

A Successful Failure (1934)
Great God Gold (1935)
Honeymoon Limited (1935)
Two Sinners (1935)
Frisco Waterfront (1935)
The House of a Thousand Candles (1936)
Yellowstone (1936)
Mysterious Crossing (1936)
California Straight Ahead! (1937)
I Cover the War (1937)
Idol of the Crowds (1937)
Adventure's End (1937)
Midnight Intruder (1938)
The Beloved Brat (1938)
Prison Break (1938)
Secrets of a Nurse (1938)
Risky Business (1939)
Big Town Czar (1939)
Mickey the Kid (1939)
Call a Messenger (1939)
The Big Guy (1939)
Black Friday (1940)
Gangs of Chicago (1940)
Meet the Wildcat (1940)
I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now (1940)
Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940)
The San Francisco Docks (1940)
Where Did You Get That Girl? (1941)
Buck Privates (1941)
In the Navy (1941)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
Eagle Squadron (1942)
To the People of the United States (1943)
White Savage (1943)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
Night in Paradise (1946)
New Orleans (1947)
Impact (1949)
Francis (1950)
Francis Goes to the Races (1951)
Rhubarb (1951)
Francis Goes to West Point (1952)
It Grows on Trees (1952)
South Sea Woman (1953)
Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)
Star of India (1954)
Francis Joins the WACS (1954)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Francis in the Navy (1955)
Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955)
The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
Escapade in Japan (1957)
The Thief of Baghdad (1961)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
Hold On! (1966)
Rain for a Dusty Summer (1971)

Universal Monsters

Films

The Phantom of the Opera	The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Dracula	Dracula (English) (1931) Dracula (Spanish) (1931) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Son of Dracula (1943)

Frankenstein	Frankenstein (1931) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Son of Frankenstein (1939) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

Edgar Allan Poe	Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Black Cat (1934) The Raven (1935) The Black Cat (1941)

The Mummy	The Mummy (1932) The Mummy's Hand (1940) The Mummy's Tomb (1942) The Mummy's Ghost (1944) The Mummy's Curse (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

The Invisible Man	The Invisible Man (1933) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) The Invisible Woman (1940) Invisible Agent (1942) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Werewolves	Werewolf of London (1935) The Wolf Man (1941) She-Wolf of London (1946)

Crossovers	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Ape Woman	Captive Wild Woman (1943) Jungle Woman (1944) The Jungle Captive (1945)

Inner Sanctum Mysteries	Calling Dr. Death (1943) Weird Woman (1944) Dead Man's Eyes (1944) The Frozen Ghost (1945) Strange Confession (1945) Pillow of Death (1945)

Gill-man	Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Revenge of the Creature (1955) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Other films	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Man Who Laughs (1928) The Last Warning (1929) The Last Performance (1929) The Cat Creeps (1930) La Voluntad del muerto (1930) The Old Dark House (1932) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) The Invisible Ray (1936) Night Key (1937) The Phantom Creeps (1939) Tower of London (1939) Black Friday (1940) Man Made Monster (1941) Horror Island (1941) The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) Night Monster (1942) The Mad Ghoul (1943) The Climax (1944) House of Horrors (1946) The Brute Man (1946) Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) The Strange Door (1951) The Black Castle (1952) It Came from Outer Space (1953) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) Tarantula (1955) Cult of the Cobra (1955) This Island Earth (1955) The Mole People (1956) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Land Unknown (1957) The Monolith Monsters (1957) The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) Monster on the Campus (1958) Curse of the Undead (1959) The Leech Woman (1960)

Remakes	Dracula (1979) The Mummy (1999) The Mummy Returns (2001) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) The Wolfman (2010) Dracula Untold (2014)

Reboot series	The Mummy (2017)

Tributes

Boo! (1932)
Shock Theater (1957)
Tales of Frankenstein (1958)
The Munsters (1964–66)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Monster Squad (1976–77)
Love at First Bite (1979)
Frankenweenie (1984)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Van Helsing (2004)
House of the Wolf Man (2009)
Monster High (2010)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Frankenweenie (2012)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Monsters

Franchises

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