The Spider Woman (1943)

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Country: USA
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1944-01-21
Director: Roy William Neill
Writers: Bertram Millhauser , Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
Language: English
Stars: Basil Rathbone , Nigel Bruce , Gale Sondergaard (1899–1985) , Dennis Hoey , Vernon Downing , Alec Craig , Arthur Hohl , Mary Gordon , Jimmy Aubrey , Mary Bayless
Runtime: 63 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: De vrouw met de spin (Belgium) , Hämähäkkinainen (Finland) , シャーロック・ホームズ　蜘蛛女 (Japan) , La mujer araña (Mexico) , A Teia de Aranha (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Spider Woman (United Kingdom) , Жената с паяците (Bulgaria) , Người Đàn Bà Nhện (Vietnam) , Sherlock Holmes in the Spider Woman (United States of America) , Sherlock Holmes et la femme aux araignées (France, French Republic) , Sherlock Holmes va Zane Ankabooty (Iran) , Sherlock Holmes (Italy) , La femme aux araignées (France, French Republic) , La donna ragno (Italy) , Sherlock Holmes és a pókasszony (Hungary) , The Spider Woman (United States of America) , La mujer araña (Spain) , Паучиха , La femme à l'araignée (Belgium) , Sherlock Holmes e a Mulher Aranha (Brazil) , Edderkoppekvinden (Denmark) , Das Spinnennest (Germany) , Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (United States of America) , The Spider Woman , Sherlock Holmes och spindelmysteriet (Sweden)
Plot: Sherlock Holmes takes on a case that the press has dubbed the pajama suicides. Eminent men are going to bed in the safety of their own homes, with everything seemingly being normal, only to commit suicide in the night. Holmes fakes his own death in the hopes of giving him a freer hand in the investigation and is convinced that a woman, a female Moriarty as he describes her, is behind the deaths. The dead men were all eminent and very wealthy. He impersonates a wealthy retired Indian military officer in the hope of drawing out the woman and he soon meets Adrea Spedding but she quickly sees through his disguise and proves herself to be the challenge Holmes predicted she would be. She is a worthy adversary and soon traps him setting him up in a carnival shooting gallery that seems to assure his death.
IMDB:tt0037303