The Spider and the Fly
A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.
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"Paris at the outset of the impending doom, which would erupt into World War One. Suave, sophisticated, smart talking but savage Guy Rolfe strives to stay one step ahead of dapper, unflappable chief of police, Eric Portman, who, as the title implies, bides his time, awaiting the appropriate moment to catch his prey. It all starts to go horribly wrong for Rolfe, when a routine, dead of night caper, involving a spot of tight rope walking and an assault on the north face of the Eiger results in the death of both his accomplice and a police officer. Soon afterwards, Portman nails his man, but it&a..."
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This was the first release from the newly revived Mayflower Pictures Corporation which had been set up in 1937 by Charles Laughton and Erich Pommer, but gone into hiatus on the outbreak of World War II.
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A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.