Described by the Spectator's book reviewer as 'The story of an enterprising female burglar who commits an almost incredible error of judgment.'
The Black Spider
Foolish Monte Carlo
( dir. William Humphrey
)
United Kingdom (UK)
:
British & Colonial Kinematograph Company
,
1920
11005237
1920
single work
film/TV
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.
The Black Spider
1927
11006900
1927
single work
drama
crime
'Who is it who steals the jewels and leaves behind a little card that bears a drawing of a black spider? Fortunately, we are not long left to ask that too familiar question; the play does not chiefly depend on a mysterious identity. Mr. Cosway, a private detective summoned to Monte Carlo, soon begins to have his suspicions, which we are deliberately given every reason to share, and it is no great shock when feminine ankles appear on the rope ladder or when the raising of a mask reveals Madame Para's face. So the thief is our heroine, driven of course to thieving not by greed or wickedness, but in circumstances which, in the theatre at least, provide her with a hurried excuse.'
Source:
Times [London], 27 December 1927, p.5.
