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
FloydThe Man with No Name
Claudette BonneyMarnie
Robin LaineDr. Harwell Carver
John BarkerJB
Jessica RattiganJess
Graham Morris AlmondJudah
Andrew WestcottBenton
Neil BurrowsSurveyors' Assistant
Norman BarrowMan on Prairie
Robin FreemanDead Man / Masked Man
Cameron BainMasked Man
Max ReevesMan in Forest
