The rathbonebruce sherlock holmes films reach 1944 and land no less a leading lady than gale sondergaard. The spider woman stikes back dvd 1946 rondo hatton, gale. Bryan singer reportedly said in 2003 that he envisioned x2. Oct 14, 2019 complete list of disney plus launch titles revealed. The spider woman strikes back 1946 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. At the new york state university, one of peter parkers tutors has accidentally given three students all the materials they need to create an atomic bomb. Roy william neill, whom holmes acknowledges is as cunning as moriarty and as venomous. Con gale sondergaard, brenda joyce, kirby grant, milburn stone, rondo hatton, hobart cavanaugh. Episode v the empire strikes back 1980 was the best. At some point after the release of the sherlock holmes movie the spider woman 1944, someone at universal decided to make the character played by gale sondergaard a recurring one, so they signed her to a multipicture deal with ford beebe as producerdirector of the series. Bluray audio quality the curzon artificial eye kiss of the spider woman film is presented with only two audio tracks and they are 5. Original spider woman strikes back, the 1946 movie poster in vg. Read the full synopsis of the spider woman strikes back, 1946, directed by arthur lubin, with gale sondergaard, brenda joyce, kirby grant, at turner classic movies. Universal sold the series outright in the 1950s, and three of the titles are said to be in the public domain.
Peculiar almostsequel to sherlock holmes and the spider woman, starring gale sondegaard once again as the movies villain albeit a. She has more in common with the nonarachnid arch villain as portrayed by gale sondergaard one of my favourite actresses in the sherlock holmes movie spider woman, 1944, dir. Universal was so impressed they signed her to a contract, intending to do a whole series of b films based on the spider woman character. I found this to be one of the best movies in the series. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. The series was produced by depatiefreleng enterprises and marvel comics animation both owned by marvel entertainment, and aired on september 22, 1979, to january 5, 1980, one season of sixteen episodes, on the abctv network. The characters she plays in both films are not the same person, and both characters have different names. The king pin strikes again was perhaps the best episode of the series. Released in march of 1946, this film featured a reprise of the role that gale sondergaard played in the seventh film in universals sherlock holmes movies starring basil rathbone, the spider woman. Joey paur of geektyrant stated that someone who is a fan of spiderman, specifically the miles morales version of the webslinger, would probably enjoy the film. The spider woman strikes back 1946 the movie database. Gale sondergaard in the spider woman strikes back 1946 the spider woman strikes back 1946. Trivia holmes becomes suspicious that the criminal he is pursuing has been using some species of spider to perpetrate crimes.
The spider woman strikes back 1946 she gale sondergaard and her hulking servant grow bloodsucking plants, as a young woman brenda joyce finds out. Plans changed, however, and the only other spider woman movie sondergaard made the spider woman strikes back had no connection to the character from this movie. Other movies that were released in 1980 have done much better after the fact than they did at the time. The spider woman strikes back 1946 03221946 us horror 59m user score. In the spider woman, sondergaards character is named adrea spedding. Anyway, the spider woman strikes back is a weird tale of vegetal vampirism by proxy featuring, if im not mistaken, the first female mad doctor in the history of horror. Original spider woman strikes back, the 1946 movie. The spider woman strikes back 1946 the spider woman. Watson, the seventh of fourteen such films the pair were involved in. Unfortunately, the empire strikes back accounted for 25 percent of all ticket sales in the summer. The treatment is successful, but the side effects are extraordinary.
In the weirdsville departamento, gale sondergaard returns to the screen as the spider woman three years later in a supposed sequel without sherlock holmes, as a completely different person with an evil affinity for spiders in, the spider woman strikes back. Original movie poster for spider woman strikes back, the 1946 16327 universal pictures six sheet poster 81x81 folded. Spiderwoman the complete animated series of 16 cartoons on a 4 dvd set as a child, jessica drew was bitten by a deadly spider. Spiderman strikes back was released theatrically in europe and seen on television in the united states as a twopart episode of the amazing spiderman, entitled the deadly dust. Peculiar almostsequel to sherlock holmes and the spider woman, starring gale sondegaard once again as the movies villain albeit a different one, the sinister zenobia dollard, who uses the. Now we come to the spider woman strikes back 1946, which is a nonsequel to a sherlock holmes film from three years earlier.
The spider woman strikes back arthur lubin, 1946 12. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as moriarty and as venomous as a spider. The empire strikes back, had any guarantee of viewership. The spider woman strikes back 1946 you beautiful creature.
Sherlock holmes and the spider woman 1944 daily scribbling. She was so successful as the spider woman of the title that she got a sequel, 1946s the spider woman strikes back, though in true hollywood style it had precisely nothing whatsoever to do with this one. The movie industry struggled to make money in 1980. Sherlock holmes and the spider woman 1944 daily scribbling bk august 17, 20 at 3.
The spider woman 1944 roy william neills 1944 thriller the spider woman marked basil rathbones seventh screen appearance as sherlock holmes. Sherlock holmes investigates a series of socalled pajama suicides. Jean brenda joyce is hired as her caretaker after all the preceding caretakers vanish without a trace. Spiderwoman is an animated television series, based on the marvel comics character spiderwoman. Its strange to think that there might be a universal horror film that has never been released on video but the spider woman strikes back 1946 fits that description. The 10 best basil rathbone sherlock holmes movies and dvds. This film was billed as a sequel to the spider woman 1943, but the two have nothing in. The dark knight strikes again film batman comic vine.
Xmen united 2003 as the film series the empire strikes back. Where the first set was centered on the core monsters, and the second one based on actors, this set is divided by themes and time periods. Although hitler makes an appearance as a target in a carnival. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film. While peter parker tries to find out whats happened, the police suspect him of the crime, and peter has to deal with an attractive journalist. The spider woman strikes back 1946 directed by arthur lubin. I recently purchased the spider woman 1979 dvd and watched the whole series in two sittings.
It packages together 3 brand new universal monster legacy sets, containing 32 films in all. He also stated that the film gave a solid idea of what a liveaction version of the character might be like. The spider woman strikes back dec 02, 2010 about her performance in the spider woman strikes back, i can only say that she is bestknown as the second actress to play jane in the tarzan movies. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
The spider woman strikes back 1946 movie moviefone. See more photos from sherlock holmes and the spider woman on page two. The spider woman strikes back is a 1946 film about young girl who goes to work as a livein caretaker for a spooky old woman directed by arthur lubin. The new animated series this time using computer animation was produced by mainframe entertainment for sony pictures television and broadcast on mtv. A young girl goes to work as a livein caretaker for a spooky old woman. When he twice played the role at 20th centuryfox in the 1930s, the films were straightforward depictions of arthur conan doyles victorian supersleuth the hound of the baskervilles 1939 and an adaptation of william gillettes popular play the. A later film, the spider woman strikes back 1946, was made with gale sondergaard repeating her role as the spider woman, but did not include rathbone. Gale sondergaard starred in a similar role in the misleadinglytitled the spider woman strikes back also produced by universal, with which there is no canonical relation. Anyway, it is a fun little creepy film from universal, whose b films were always well done and quite. Like a handful of other obscure movies the studio made in the 1940s there has been no release of this interesting picture for home viewing.
I recently purchased the spiderwoman 1979 dvd and watched the whole series in two sittings. Large selection of the strikes back and other associated products. All but the first two fox features were restored on film by the ucla film archives, and a featurette on the restoration sees archivist bob gitt. When peter trained the miles to get better, spiderman, they soon joined four otherpokamon. Complete list of disney plus launch titles revealed. Who says the spider woman strikes back must have anything to do with the. This film was billed as a sequel to the spider woman 1943, but the two have nothing in common except that gale sondergaard plays a villainess who handles spiders in both.
To save her life, her scientist father injects her with an experimental serum. Even the studio seemed to want to distance itself from holmes, omitting his name from the film s title though the spider woman continues to be commonly referred to as sherlock holmes and the spider woman. Interestingly, there were originally twelve speaking roles in spider woman strikes back. There are lots of great moments and dialog such as the holmes encounter with adrea as rajni singh and the use of the phrase mendix flagrante. In 1978 episodes from the television series were reedited and released outside of the united states as a feature film titled spider man strikes back. The spider woman strikes back is a silly and dull movie, partially redeemed by nicely gothic direction by arthur lubin hes best known for the early abbott and costello films but he seems to me to have been more at home in horror than in comedy and great chiaroscuro cinematography by paul ivano, but saddled with a plot that makes no sense. The spider woman strikes back 1946 retrovision media.
Buy the spider woman strikes back movie posters from movie poster shop. Also missing, pretty woman, beaches and all of the ernest films. Here we have a real villain from marvel going up against spiderwoman and he comes close to defeating her. One would have assumed that although playing the same titled character from sherlock holmes vs. The spider woman alternatively titled sherlock holmes and the spider woman and spider woman is a 1943 mystery film starring basil rathbone as sherlock holmes and nigel bruce as dr. The film uses elements from at least five conan doyle stories. She doesnt know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant. The spider woman strikes back posters for sale online. Despite the huge amount of story that the empire strikes back tells, and its position in the structure of the overall star wars narrative being the middle part of the second trilogy, the film manages to bring the human characters to life much more than in any of the other star wars movies. The woman in green full movie basil rathbone nigel bruce tcc ai color duration.
Universal classic monsters collection vol 3 is the upcoming third follow up box set to 2014s universal classic monsters monsters. The spider woman strikes back 1946 directed by arthur. The spider woman strikes back classic horror film board. Watch fullmovie pokemon mewtwo strikes back evolution 2019. Every movie mentions how despite the title this is not a sequel to the spider woman, cause uh gale sondergaard has a different name. Missing from the disney plus complete list of movies are all of the classic touchstone pictures titles from the 1980s and 1990s such as down and out in beverly hills, ruthless people, big business, cocktail, adventures in babysitting, shoot to kill, good morning vietnam, doa, etc. He calls on the assistance of expert adam gilflower of the institute of entomology, who identifies the spider as a lycosa carnivora, and states that it is the most dangerous insect on earth. In 1979, a film made using the same method was released as spider man. Rathbone and bruce took a break during production to make a cameo appearance in the comedy crazy house 1943, starring ole olsen and chic. Elements of the spider woman were given homage in the sherlock episode the empty hearse, including watson mistaking a genuine client for a falsebearded holmes in disguise. Disney plus complete list of movies all disney plus movies.
The spider woman strikes back gale sondergaard rondo hatton top kirby grant brenda joyce bottom 1946 movie poster masterprint 11 x. Sondergaards black widow villainess inspired a 1946 semisequel the spider woman strikes back that did not involve holmes. Mar 01, 2012 unlike the unhappy spidora, however, the red back spider woman hybrid depicted above is no fake and is definitely not to be crossed. The great actress gale sondergaard was so popular in the role that she returned in a 1946 nonsequel called the spider woman strikes back marvelous title, a horror picture with rondo hatton. In 2003, another television series adaptation, spider man. She gale sondergaard and her hulking servant grow bloodsucking plants, as a young woman brenda joyce finds out. Filmed during world war ii, the moving targets in the shooting gallery are hitler, mussolini and hirohito cartoons.
Sherlock fakes his death as part of a gambit to prove that the victims are not suicides. The spider woman strikes back is a 1946 horror film starring gale sondergaard, with a running time of 59 minutes. Overview of the spider woman strikes back, 1946, directed by arthur lubin, with gale sondergaard, brenda joyce, kirby grant, at turner classic movies. The complete collection is a fine set of these 70 yearold thrillers that have gone their separate ways. The spider woman strikes back movie posters from movie poster. The spider woman mistress of murder vs sherlock holmes. The spider woman in 1944 this would indeed be a sequel, but alas there seems to be no real connection between the two films whatsoever. Spider woman strikes back, the 1946 out of 4 rare and forgotten universal horror film has a nurse going to a creepy house to take care of a blind woman. Despite the similar title and role played by sondergaard, the film is not a sequel to the sherlock holmes film, the spider woman. The sequel spider woman strikes back, bears no relation to holmes, but is spooky nonetheless. Before jean remarking that the third movie is the weakest, jubilee says that star wars. If they did make it into a movie, my only hope would be that they didnt cut out or change much or anything.
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