The Spider and the Fly
1949"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
Acted in
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
John Carol
as Jean Louis / Alfred Louis
May Hallatt
as Monique
Arthur Lowe
as Town Clerk
Sebastian Cabot
as Prefect
Jeremy Spenser
as Jacques
Madge Brindley
as Jacques' Grandmother
Hattie Jacques
as Barmaid (uncredited)
John Salew
as Minister's Secretary
James Hayter
as Mayor
Patrick Young
as Captain le Maitre
Keith Pyott
as Father Pletsier
Natasha Sokolova
as Nicole Porte
Philip Stainton
as Café Manager
Hal Osmond
as Swiss Taxi Driver
Alastair Hunter
as Watchman at Legation
Gerald Andersen
as Coding Clerk (uncredited)
Andreas Malandrinos
as Bank Watchman (uncredited)
Charles Paton
as Café Schader Waiter (uncredited)
Dido Plumb
as Blind Beggar (uncredited)
Iris Vandeleur
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)