Black Widow (1951 film)

Black Widow
Directed byVernon Sewell
Screenplay byAllan MacKinnon
Based onReturn from Darkness
by Lester Powell
Produced byAnthony Hinds
StarringChristine Norden
Robert Ayres
CinematographyWalter J. Harvey
Edited byJames Needs
Production
company
Release date
  • 22 October 1951 (1951-10-22)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Black Widow, also referred to as The Black Widow, is a 1951 British second feature thriller film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Christine Norden and Robert Ayres. It was a Hammer Film production written by Allan MacKinnon based on Lester Powell's 1948 radio serial Return from Darkness. This was the first film Hammer produced at Gilston Park. Filming began on 17 April 1951. Hammer tried to play up former singer Christine Norden as a star, but her career fizzled out at age 28, after two more films.