The Spider and the Fly (1949)
1h 34m
Running Time
December 1, 1949Release Date
The Spider and the Fly (1949)
1h 34m
Running Time
December 1, 1949Release Date
Plot.
"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
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Cast & Crew.

Eric Portman
Fernand Maubert

Guy Rolfe
Philippe Lodocq

Nadia Gray
Madeleine Saincaize

George Cole
Marc, detective

Harold Lang
Belfort, the pickpocket

Edward Chapman
Minister for War

Maurice Denham
Colonel de la Roche

John Carol
Jean Louis / Alfred Louis

May Hallatt
Monique

Arthur Lowe
Town Clerk

Sebastian Cabot
Prefect

Jeremy Spenser
Jacques

Madge Brindley
Jacques' Grandmother

Hattie Jacques
Barmaid (uncredited)

John Salew
Minister's Secretary

James Hayter
Mayor

Patrick Young
Captain le Maitre

Keith Pyott
Father Pletsier

Natasha Sokolova
Nicole Porte

Philip Stainton
Café Manager

Hal Osmond
Swiss Taxi Driver

Alastair Hunter
Watchman at Legation

Gerald Andersen
Coding Clerk (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos
Bank Watchman (uncredited)

Charles Paton
Café Schader Waiter (uncredited)

Dido Plumb
Blind Beggar (uncredited)

Iris Vandeleur
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)

Robert Hamer
Director

Robert Westerby
Screenplay / Screenstory

Seth Holt
Editor

Aubrey Baring
Producer

Georges Auric
Original Music Composer

Geoffrey Unsworth
Director of Photography

Edward Carrick
Art Direction

Ernest Gasser
Makeup Artist

Pearl Orton
Hairstylist

E.M. Smedley-Aston
Production Manager

Don Weeks
Assistant Director

Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Mixer

Sydney Wiles
Sound Mixer

Arthur Ibbetson
Camera Operator

Doris Lee
Costume Supervisor

Muir Mathieson
Conductor

Connie Willis
Continuity
Media.


Details.
Release DateDecember 1, 1949
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom
Genres
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Wiki.
The Spider and the Fly is a 1949 British crime film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe and Nadia Gray. The screenplay concerns an unusual love triangle that develops between two criminals and a policeman on the eve of the First World War. It was written by Robert Westerby. Hamer made it immediately after Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
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