Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman 1943 All Ages
When
1.00 pm, Sun 29 Jul 2018 (63 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema A
About
'At the start of The Spider Woman, London is being swept by a rash of mysterious deaths, nicknamed the "Pyjama Suicides," in which wealthy men are leaping from buildings or putting bullets in their heads without bothering to change out of their sleepwear. When word of the crimes reaches Holmes (on a fishing trip in Scotland), he doesn't for a minute consider them suicides. He suspects there is something more to the crimes: "something monstrous and horrible," he tells Watson (Nigel Bruce), "something that drives these poor fellows to their so-called suicides. And when you drive a man to suicide, that's murder."' TCM
Production Credits
- Director: Roy William Neill
- Script: Bertram Millhauser
- Based on: the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Cinematographer: Charles Van Enger
- Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
- Editor: William Austin
- Print Source: UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles
- Rights: Universal Pictures Australia
- Year: 1943
- Runtime: 63 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 35mm