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The Spider and the Fly

69 %|Dec 1, 1949|Crime, Thriller

"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

Featured Crew

Robert Hamer
Director
Robert Westerby
Screenplay
Robert Westerby
Screenstory
Seth Holt
Editor
Aubrey Baring
Producer
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Geoffrey Unsworth
Director of Photography
Edward Carrick
Art Direction

Cast

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Eric Portman
Fernand Maubert
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Guy Rolfe
Philippe Lodocq
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Nadia Gray
Madeleine Saincaize
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George Cole
Marc, detective
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Harold Lang
Belfort, the pickpocket
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Edward Chapman
Minister for War
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Maurice Denham
Colonel de la Roche
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John Carol
Jean Louis / Alfred Louis
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Arthur Lowe
Town Clerk
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Madge Brindley
Jacques' Grandmother
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Hattie Jacques
Barmaid (uncredited)
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John Salew
Minister's Secretary
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Patrick Young
Captain le Maitre
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Keith Pyott
Father Pletsier
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Natasha Sokolova
Nicole Porte
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Philip Stainton
Café Manager
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Hal Osmond
Swiss Taxi Driver
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Alastair Hunter
Watchman at Legation
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Gerald Andersen
Coding Clerk (uncredited)
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Andreas Malandrinos
Bank Watchman (uncredited)
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Charles Paton
Café Schader Waiter (uncredited)
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Dido Plumb
Blind Beggar (uncredited)
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Iris Vandeleur
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)