Dreflix: The Spider Returns

The Spider Returns

Feature version of the American serial film of the same name, edited for exhibition overseas only, never exhibited in the USA in any medium, and evidently a lost film.

1943

1h 25min

Top Billed Cast

Warren Hull
The Spider / Richard Wentworth / Blinky McQuade
Mary Ainslee
Nita Van Sloan

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