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Release Date:
December 1, 1949
Original Title:
The Spider and the Fly
Genres:
Crime | Thriller
Production Companies:
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Mayflower Productions
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 94
"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
Art Direction:
Edward Carrick
Assistant Director:
Don Weeks
Camera Operator:
Arthur Ibbetson
Conductor:
Muir Mathieson
Continuity:
Connie Willis
Costume Supervisor:
Doris Lee
Director:
Robert Hamer
Director of Photography:
Geoffrey Unsworth
Editor:
Seth Holt
Hairstylist:
Pearl Orton
Makeup Artist:
Ernest Gasser
Original Music Composer:
Georges Auric
Producer:
Aubrey Baring
Production Manager:
E.M. Smedley-Aston
Screenplay:
Robert Westerby
Screenstory:
Robert Westerby
Sound Mixer:
Gordon K. McCallum
Sydney Wiles
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