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The Spider and the Fly
A New British Thriller of Crime, Detection and Suspense!
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Cast
- Eric Portman as Fernand Maubert
- Guy Rolfe as Philippe Lodocq
- Nadia Gray as Madeleine Saincaize
- George Cole as Marc, detective
- Harold Lang as Belfort, the pickpocket
- Edward Chapman as Minister for War
- Maurice Denham as Colonel de la Roche
- John Carol as Jean Louis / Alfred Louis
- May Hallatt as Monique
- Arthur Lowe as Town Clerk
- Sebastian Cabot as Prefect
- Jeremy Spenser as Jacques
Details
- Director
- Robert Hamer
- Released
- December 1, 1949
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Studio
- J. Arthur Rank Organisation and Mayflower Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.9 / 10 from 8 votes
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