Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

19581h 13mdir. Bert Ira GordonUnited Stateshorror filmscience fiction film

Note: this print runs 73 minutes against a recorded 80 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Gene Persson, Gene Roth, Hank Patterson

Directed by Bert Ira Gordon

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Earth vs. the Spider (a.k.a. The Spider) is an independently made 1958 American black-and-white science fiction horror film produced and directed for Santa Rosa Productions by Bert I. Gordon, who also provided the plot upon which the screenplay by George Worthing Yates and Laszlo Gorog was based. Though the title suggests a global crisis, the film focuses entirely on a small town being terrorized by a giant spider.

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