The Spider and the Fly (1949)

Directed by

Robert Hamer

Genre

drama film, crime film, romance film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two criminals and a policeman form an unusual love triangle just before the First World War. The story follows their tense and dangerous relationships as war approaches.

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What happens

The Spider and the Fly is a 1949 British crime film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe and Nadia Gray. The screenplay concerns an unusual love triangle that develops between two criminals and a policeman on the eve of the First World War. It was written by Robert Westerby. Hamer made it immediately after Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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