The Spider and the Fly

The Spider and the Fly (1949)

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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

Director: Robert Hamer
Writer: Robert Westerby

Casts

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

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