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

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