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This is a very good B movie done in the noir style. Ray June was the cinematographer, and his deep focus work makes the film worth seeing all by itself. Note particularly the bedroom scene where everything is doubled. Zachary Scott, for a change, plays the typically confused noir male, and Ann Sothern, showing the force of period style, switches from Maisie to a somewhat tormented femme fatale. Enjoy!

Reviewers have been dumping on Along Came a Spider as just another ho-hum formula film. What film does not use a formula? It's not the formula, it's how well it is done that counts, and this particular film is so good at exploring well known conventions, and providing some twists, that the audience I saw it with applauded at the conclusion. Morgan Freeman, as usual, gives a superb performance, as do all the other actors. The pacing of the film, the stylish direction, and the welcome absence of gratuitous sexual scenes and blasphemy, make Along Came a Spider, a film that IMDB users will enjoy seeing.