The Spider and the Fly

"A New British Thriller of Crime Detection and Suspense"Movie
Audience Score
69
The Spider and the Fly
NR 1 hr 34 minCrime, Thriller
The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloudcuckoo 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 policechief 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 Kaisers 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
DirectorRobert Hamer