form y separately published work icon The Black Spider single work   film/TV  
Alternative title: Foolish Monte Carlo
Adaptation of The Black Spider Carlton Dawe , 1911 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1920... 1920 The Black Spider
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Living in Monte Carlo, Angela Brentwood is engaged to the Vicomte de Beaurais, but secretly enamoured of the Black Spider, a burglar who is separating the rich of Monte Carlo from their jewellery, and leaving behind notes signed with a black spider.

Notes

  • A lost film.
  • Foolish Monte Carlo is the American title.
  • The thief is a woman in both Dawe's novel and his own stageplay based on the novel; the script-writer for the 1920 film, however, made the thief male. As such, the film contains characters that are not present in the novel: heroine Angela Brentwood and her fiancee (and cat burglar) the Comte de Beauvais.

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