The Spider and the Fly (1949)
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Release12/01/1949
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ProductionJ. Arthur Rank Organisation, Mayflower Productions
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Rotten tomato69%
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Original titleThe Spider and the Fly
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Original languageen
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Production Cost
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A New British Thriller of Crime, Detection and Suspense!
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
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Casts
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Fernand Maubert
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Philippe Lodocq
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Madeleine Saincaize
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Marc, detective
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Belfort, the pickpocket
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Minister for War
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Colonel de la Roche
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Jean Louis / Alfred Louis
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Monique
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Town Clerk
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Prefect
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Jacques
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Jacques' Grandmother
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Barmaid (uncredited)
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Minister's Secretary
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Mayor
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Captain le Maitre
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Father Pletsier
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Nicole Porte
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Café Manager
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Swiss Taxi Driver
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Watchman at Legation
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Coding Clerk (uncredited)
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Bank Watchman (uncredited)
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Café Schader Waiter (uncredited)
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Blind Beggar (uncredited)
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Cleaning Woman (uncredited)