The Spider (1917)

Movie
Original title	The spider
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1917
Rod
Director	Alwin Neuss
script	Paul Otto
production	Erich Pommer
occupation
Alwin Neuss : Tom Shark M. Paulsen : The old Inge Leopold Thurner : Ohlsen overseer Leo Connard : Mortensen Curt Bois Lorenz Koehler Wolfgang Zilzer Anna of Palen Frida Richard

The Spider is a 1917 crime film in the Tom Shark silent film series .

action

A woman is murdered. Tom Shark clears the case with the help of a piece of jewelry. The husband is the killer.

background

The film was produced by Decla-Film-Gesellschaft Holz & Co. (No. 31). It was four files in length . The censorship took place in January 1917. The Berlin police banned him with a youth ban (No. 40272), the Munich police did not allow any announcement as a detective film (No. 23627, 23628, 23629, 23630). A test performance in front of a paying audience also took place in January 1917, the actual world premiere was on February 2, 1917 in the Berlin marble house.

Web links

• The Spider at The German Early Cinema Database
• The spider in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The spider at filmportal.de