# The Spider's Web (1938)

A criminologist uses two fake identities, one an underworld habitué and the other a terrifying masked figure known as The Spider. Aided by his faithful Sikh servant, he is in a desperate battle against The Octopus, a masked villain whose outlaw gang is sabotaging the nation's transportation system as the first part of his plan to gain control of the entire country. 15-chapter cliffhanger serial, colorized Warren Hull as Richard Wentworth / The Spider / Blinky McQuade Iris Meredith as Nita Van Sloan Richard Fiske as Jackson Kenne Duncan as Ram Singh Forbes Murray as Police Commissioner Stanley Kirk Donald Douglas as Jenkins - the Butler Marc Lawrence as Steve Harmon Charles C. Wilson as Chase (as Charles Wilson) John Tyrrell as Grafton - Henchman Eugene Anderson Jr. as Johnnie Sands Ann Doran as Mason's Secretary

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1938
- By: Columbia Pictures
- Genres: Drama, Crime, Adventure
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/spiders-web)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/spiders-web?play=1)