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The Spider and the Fly

on BBC Two England

Crime drama
FILM starring
Eric Portman Paris: a skilled safe cracker and a dogged police chief have a strange relationship. It becomes stranger still when the chief offers to get the crook out of a five-year jail sentence in order to crack an enemy safe during the First World War.
Director Robert Hamer (1949)
FILM REVIEWS pages 55-62

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Portman
Director:
Robert Hamer
Maubert:
Eric Portman
Philippe:
Guy Rolfe
Madeleine:
Nadia Gray
Marc:
George Cole
Minister of War:
Edward Chapman
Col de la Roche:
Maurice Denham
Jean/Alfred Louis:
John Carol
Nicole:
Natasha Sokolova
Belfort:
Harold Lang

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