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The Spider and the Fly

1949·Directed by Robert Hamer

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Released
December 1, 1949
Runtime
1h 34m

About The Spider and the Fly

  • Crime
  • Thriller

Synopsis

"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

Director
  • Robert Hamer
Writer
  • RWRobert Westerby

Principal cast

In billing order
  • Eric PortmanFernand Maubert
  • Guy RolfePhilippe Lodocq
  • Nadia GrayMadeleine Saincaize
  • George ColeMarc, detective
  • Harold LangBelfort, the pickpocket
  • Edward ChapmanMinister for War
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