| The White Spider | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Harald Reinl |
| Producer: | Werner M. Lenz Gero Wecker |
| Music: | Peter Thomas |
| Cinematography: | Werner M. Lenz |
| Studio: | Arca-Winston Films Hans Oppenheimer Film |
| Distributor: | Constantin Film |
| Runtime: | 103 minutes |
| Country: | West Germany |
| Language: | German |
The White Spider (de|'''Die weiße Spinne''') is a 1963 West German crime thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor and Horst Frank. It is based on a novel of the same name by the Czech writer Louis Weinert-Wilton.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst H. Albrecht. Location shooting took place in London, Hamburg and West Berlin. It was made and promoted to look like a German Edgar Wallace movie, using the same director and several actors from the Wallace film series.
When Muriel Irvine's husband is killed in an automobile accident after a night of gambling, she discovers that he had previously dramatically increased his life insurance coverage. The insurance company alerts Scotland Yard to a recent rash of such deaths all affecting gamblers. When the Yard's chief inspector is murdered while investigating the case, they bring in a mysterious detective to solve it.