The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
| The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery |
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| Genre | Period drama |
| Created by |
A&E Television Networks in association with Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd. |
| Written by |
Paul Monash (screenplay) Rex Stout (novel) |
| Directed by | Bill Duke |
| Starring |
Timothy Hutton Maury Chaykin Bill Smitrovich Mimi Kuzyk Colin Fox Saul Rubinek Fulvio Cecere Trent McMullen R.D. Reid |
| Theme music composer | Michael Small |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) |
Michael Jaffe Howard Braunstein |
| Editor(s) | Ronald Sanders |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
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| Original network | A&E |
| Original release | March 5, 2000 |
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| Followed by | A Nero Wolfe Mystery |
The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery is a 2000 made-for-television film based on the 1953 novel by Rex Stout. Set in 1950s Manhattan, the A&E Network production stars Maury Chaykin as the heavyweight detective genius Nero Wolfe, and Timothy Hutton as Wolfe's assistant, Archie Goodwin, narrator of the Nero Wolfe stories. Veteran screenwriter Paul Monash adapted the 1953 novel by Rex Stout; Bill Duke directed. When it first aired on the A&E Network March 5, 2000, The Golden Spiders was seen in 3.2 million homes, making it the fourth most-watched A&E original movie ever. Its success led to the A&E original series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002).
The voice of Archie Goodwin (Timothy Hutton) introduces us to the seventh-of-a-ton master sleuth Nero Wolfe (Maury Chaykin) — "a man who thinks he's the world's greatest detective. Truth being, he is." Wolfe lives in an opulent Manhattan brownstone on West 35th Street, where he enjoys reading, the cultivation of rare orchids, beer, and fine food prepared by his resident chef, Fritz Brenner (Colin Fox). The brownstone is also home to Archie, Wolfe's confidential assistant and legman, whose responsibilities include goading his sedentary boss into working occasionally to replenish the coffers.
When Archie joins him in the dining room, Wolfe is unfazed by the news that he is overdrawn at the bank — but he is taken aback at the discovery that Fritz has altered one of his favorite dishes without consulting him. The resulting tantrum prompts Archie to do something uncharacteristic when the doorbell rings: admit one of the neighborhood kids, Pete Drossos (Robert Clark), who says he has to see Nero Wolfe.
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