The Spider is an American crime

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...

 film noir

Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...

 directed by Robert D. Webb

Robert D. Webb

Robert D. Webb was an American film director. He directed 16 films between 1945 and 1968.-Selected filmography:* Beneath the 12-Mile Reef * Seven Cities of Gold * White Feather...

. The drama features Richard Conte

Richard Conte

Richard Conte was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather.-Life and career:...

, Faye Marlowe, and Kurt Kreuger

Kurt Kreuger

Kurt Kreuger was a Swiss-reared German actor. Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox. He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.-Life and career:...

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Cast

• Richard Conte
  Richard Conte
  Richard Conte was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather.-Life and career:...
  
   as Chris Conlon
• Faye Marlowe as Delilah 'Lila' Neilsen, alias Judith Smith
• Kurt Kreuger
  Kurt Kreuger
  Kurt Kreuger was a Swiss-reared German actor. Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox. He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.-Life and career:...
  
   as Ernest, alias Garonne
• John Harvey
  John Harvey (actor)
  John Harvey was an English actor. He appeared in 52 films, two television films and made 70 television guest appearances between 1948 and 1979....
  
   as Burns
• Martin Kosleck
  Martin Kosleck
  Martin Kosleck was a German film actor. Like many other German actors, he fled when the Nazis came to power. Inspired by his deep hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Kosleck would make a career in Hollywood playing villainous Nazis in films. While in the United States, he would appear in more...
  
   as Mikail Barak
• Mantan Moreland
  Mantan Moreland
  Mantan Moreland was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s.-Career:Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Moreland began acting by the time he was an adolescent, reportedly running away to join the circus...
  
   as Henry
• Walter Sande as Det. Lt. Walter Castle
• Cara Williams
  Cara Williams
  Cara Williams is an American film and television actress.-Biography:Born as Bernice Kamiat to an Austrian emigrant father and a mother of Romanian descent, she began her screen acting career in 1941, and was initially billed as Bernice Kay...
  
   as Wanda Vann, neighbor
• Charles Tannen as Det. Tonti
• Margaret Brayton as Jean, police records clerk
• Ann Savage as Florence Cain
• Harry Seymour as Ed, the Bartender
• Jean Del Val
  Jean Del Val
  Jean Del Val was a French-born actor. He has also been credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier.He has played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with The Fortunes of Fifi in 1917...
  
   as Henri Dutrelle, hotel manager
• Odette Vigne as Mrs. Dutrelle
• James Flavin
  James Flavin
  James William Flavin, Jr. was an American character actor whose career lasted nearly half a century.-Life and career:...
  
  as Officer Johnny Tracy

Critical reception

Film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mixed review, writing, "Robert D. Webb directs a lackluster B-film noir from the play by Charles Fulton...The Spider was a poor remake of the 1931 film of the same title. It held very little suspense, and the plot was filled with gaping holes. But Richard Conte is a fine action actor, and gives this slight film noir story a little boost just by his presence."