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.
Cast
The Man with No Name
Marnie
Turnwood
Dr. Harwell Carver
Jess
Judah
Benton
Surveyors' Assistant
Man on Prairie
Dead Man / Masked Man
Masked Man
