The Cobweb Hotel (1936)A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle ... See full summary » Director:Dave Fleischer |
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Title: The Cobweb Hotel (1936)
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A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machinegun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste. Written by David Steele
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15 May 1936 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Hotell spindelnätet See more »Company Credits
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Written by Sammy Timberg and Bob Rothberg
Sung by Jack Mercer
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Included in the Rhino Home Video compilation "Bambi Meets Godzilla and Other Weird Cartoons". See more »Soundtracks
"Spend the Night at the Cobweb Hotel"Written by Sammy Timberg and Bob Rothberg
Sung by Jack Mercer
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A spider who runs an hotel for flies in fact has foreboding, disturbing plans for his unsuspecting fly guests.
This cartoon is mainly focused on adapting the strange little song of the same name which we see the spider singing, adding an ominous curl at certain appropriate moments, as this one opens. The flies though they at first seem to be so much cattle to be harvested eventually prove to be of more substance than we initially thought as they end up putting up quite the fight of resistance indeed.
I have to say I enjoyed this one far more than perhaps many would as it carries out a somewhat morbid real world event (spiders do catch flies in their spider webs) and adds an entertaining, delightful twist to the proceedings. It helps that our spider here comes across as being particularly monstrous. Fun if slightly twisted.