The Spider Woman is a 1944 film starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Unlike most other adaptations of the Holmes stories, which retell only one of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, this film incorporates elements from the novel The Sign of the Four, as well as the short stories The Dying Detective, The Final Problem, The Speckled Band and The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.
Holmes fakes his own death in order to investigate a numb...
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The Spider Woman is a 1944 film starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Unlike most other adaptations of the Holmes stories, which retell only one of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, this film incorporates elements from the novel The Sign of the Four, as well as the short stories The Dying Detective, The Final Problem, The Speckled Band and The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.
Holmes fakes his own death in order to investigate a number of bizarre apparent suicides, that he is convinced are part of an elaborate plot by "a female Moriarty". Holmes notes that all the victims were wealthy gamblers, so disguised as "Rajni Singh", a distinguished Indian officer, he stalks London's gaming clubs.
It is not long before he encounters the villain of the piece, Adrea Spedding. Holmes discovers that she seeks out men short of money, persuades them to pawn their life insurance policies with her accomplices, then kills them.
Holmes sets himself up as her next victim, discovering that...
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