The Spider and the Fly
movie

A New British Thriller of Crime, Detection and Suspense!
Released December 01, 1949
Overview
"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
Cast

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
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John Carol
as
Jean Louis / Alfred Louis

May Hallatt
as
Monique

Arthur Lowe
as
Town Clerk

Sebastian Cabot
as
Prefect

Jeremy Spenser
as
Jacques
Crew

Robert Hamer
as
Director
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Robert Westerby
as
Screenplay
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Robert Westerby
as
Screenstory

Seth Holt
as
Editor
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Aubrey Baring
as
Producer

Georges Auric
as
Original Music Composer

Geoffrey Unsworth
as
Director of Photography
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Edward Carrick
as
Art Direction
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Ernest Gasser
as
Makeup Artist
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Pearl Orton
as
Hairstylist
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E.M. Smedley-Aston
as
Production Manager
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Don Weeks
as
Assistant Director