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"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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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1949-12-01
- video_camera_front Companies J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Mayflower Productions
- timer Runtime: 94 Mins
- star Rating: 7 / 10
- favorite Likes: 8 Likes
- info IMDB ID tt0041911
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smart_display Cast
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
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)
Patrick Young
Captain le Maitre
groups 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
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
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