6.7Summary
"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.
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Cast
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Eric PortmanFernand Maubert
Guy RolfePhilippe Lodocq
Nadia GrayMadeleine Saincaize
George ColeMarc, detective
Harold LangBelfort, the pickpocket
Edward ChapmanMinister for War
Maurice DenhamColonel de la Roche
May HallattMonique
Arthur LoweTown Clerk
Sebastian CabotPrefect
Jeremy SpenserJacques
Hattie JacquesBarmaid (uncredited)
John SalewMinister's Secretary
James HayterMayor
Keith PyottFather Pletsier
Philip StaintonCafé Manager
Hal OsmondSwiss Taxi Driver
Alastair HunterWatchman at Legation
Andreas MalandrinosBank Watchman (uncredited)
Charles PatonCafé Schader Waiter (uncredited)
Dido PlumbBlind Beggar (uncredited)
Crew
- Directed by
- Robert Hamer
- Written by
- Robert Westerby
- Produced by
- Aubrey Baring
- Music by
- Georges Auric
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Facts
December 1, 1949 · 1 h 34 min · Crime, Thriller
- Released
- December 1, 1949
- Runtime
- 1 h 34 min
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Original language
- English
- Made in
- United Kingdom