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SPIDER WOMAN
Universal Pictures
January 21, 1944
Producer - Roy William Neill
Director - Roy William Neill
CAST
Sherlock Holmes
 -Basil Rathbone
Dr. Watson
 -Nigel Bruce
Adrea Spedding
 -Gale Sondergaard
Inspector Lestrade
 -Dennis Hoey
Norman Locke
 -Vernon Downing
Radlik
 -Alec Craig
Adam Gilflower
-Arthur Hohl
Colonel
 -Stanley Logan
Artie
 -Donald Stuart
Croupier
 -John Roche
Mrs. Hudson
-Mary Gordon
Announcer
 -John Barton

In a battle of the sexes Holmes meets The Spider Woman, played by actress Gale Sondergaard. Through her popularity and style she would become what many fans would call a Female-Moriarty. Sondergaard, who won an Oscar for her supporting performance in Anthony Adverse (1936) , would make a spin-off appearance with Rondo Hatton in
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946).

Look for Gale in other films including, Cat and the Canary, The (1939), Mark of Zorro, The (1940), and Anna and the King of Siam (1946).

Included in this film you will see a few tidbits borrowed from Doyle's The Sign of the Four and also from The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.

E-Mail Me!
Holmes' rival Adrea Spedding, AKA: Spider Woman, was so appealing that actress Gale Sondergaard would appear
in the Non-Holmesian spin-off, The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946), but she would NOT be cast as the Spider Woman!
Copyright © 2000 Jeffery W. Stark