The Black Widow (1951)
Directed by Vernon Sewell
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of Black Widow. We don't know which of Sewell's real estate holdings served as the locale for this amnesia meller. We can, however, tell you that the film was inspired by the BBC radio serial "Return from Darkness." Returning from you-know-where is Robert Ayres, who learns that his wife (Christine Norden) is planning to bump him off with the help of her boyfriend (Anthony Forwood). Ayres continues feigning a loss of memory until he is able to get the drop on his would-be murderers.
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amnesia, brain-tumor, classmate, diet, exercise, extramarital-affair, graduation, high-school, knowledge, lover, memory, murder, recovery [health], teenagers, terminal-illness, wife, writing
