The Spider and the Fly

The Spider and the Fly

68% | Dec 01, 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 Cast

Robert Hamer
Director
Robert Westerby
Screenplay

Cast

Fernand Maubert
Eric Portman
Fernand Maubert
Philippe Lodocq
Guy Rolfe
Philippe Lodocq
Madeleine Saincaize
Nadia Gray
Madeleine Saincaize
Marc, detective
George Cole
Marc, detective
Belfort, the pickpocket
Harold Lang
Belfort, the pickpocket

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