The Spider and the Fly ( The Spider & the Fly )

The Spider and the Fly (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: The Spider & the Fly
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1949 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Robert Hamer

Written By:
Robert Westerby

Actors:
Eric Portman ..... Fernand Maubert
Guy Rolfe ..... Philippe Lodocq
Nadia Gray ..... Madeleine Saincaize
George Cole ..... Marc, detective
John Carol ..... Jean Louis / Alfred Louis
Harold Lang ..... Belfort, the pickpocket
Edward Chapman ..... Minister for War
Maurice Denham ..... Colonel de la Roche
John Salew ..... Minister's Secretary
May Hallatt ..... Monique
James Hayter ..... Mayor
Arthur Lowe ..... Town Clerk
Patrick Young ..... Captain le Maitre
Sebastian Cabot ..... Prefect at Amiens
Jeremy Spenser ..... Jacques, boy in church

Synopsis:

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.

A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.

The Spider and the Fly is a 1949 film directed by Robert Hamer. An unusual love triangle develops between two criminals and a policeman on the eve of World War I.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 11 November, 2014.

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