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 de Ledocq
Nadia Gray
Madeleine Saincaize
George Cole
Marc, detective
Edward Chapman
Minister for War
Harold Lang
Belfort, the pickpocket
Robert Hamer
Director
Maurice Denham
Colonel de la Roche
Robert Westerby
Writer
Aubrey Baring
Producer
John Carol
Jean Louis / Alfred Louis
May Hallatt
Monique
Georges Auric
Composer
Geoffrey Unsworth
Cinematographer
Arthur Lowe
Town Clerk
Seth Holt
Editor
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)
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. Hamer made it immediately after Kind Hearts and Coronets.