SPIDER WOMAN STRIKES BACK (1946)

Jean Kingsley (Brenda Joyce) gratefully took the position as live-in companion to blind, eccentric rancher Zenobia Dollard (Gale Sondergaard). The job description, though, said nothing about a scheme to poison her neighbors' cattle... or that the surreptitious draining of Jean's blood would be a requirement. In-name-only sequel to Sondergaard's Sherlock Holmes villainess stint also stars Milburn Stone, Kirby Grant, Hobart Cavanaugh, and Rondo Hatton as Mario the Monster Man. 59 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurette; theatrical trailer.