The Cave of the Silken Web (1927 film)

[1] It is based on an episode of the shenmo fantasy novel Journey to the West, a Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty.

[1] It was thought to be a lost film until 2011, when an original copy of The Cave of the Silken Web was discovered in the archives of the National Library in Mo i Rana, Norway.

[2] Roughly three-quarters of the film is preserved, the first reel and a section in the middle is lost.

The film was followed by a sequel in 1930 titled The Cave of the Silken Web II (續盤絲洞; 续盘丝洞; Xu Pan Si Dong), a.k.a.

Spiders II, also directed by Dan Duyu and starring Yin Mingzhu.

Full film
Still from The Cave of the Silken Web (1927)
Still from The Cave of the Silken Web (1927)