Trail of the Spider

Release Date: 2008-01-01

Overview: Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s portrayal of the “Vanishing Frontier” , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of a present day city increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations and private interests.

Rating: 9.5 / 10

Cast

Floyd

as The Man with No Name

Claudette Bonney

as Marnie

Darren Matthews

as Turnwood

Robin Laine

as Dr. Harwell Carver

John Barker

as JB