The Spider and the Fly / 19316.02 voti

A kitchen is filled with houseflies. A spider wakes up and plays his web like a harp, attracting a pair of them; the female is trapped, and the male summons the cavalry, which arrives riding horseflies, riding dragonflies to drop pepper bombs, firing champagne bottles, and ultimately setting the web on fire and catching the spider on flypaper when he falls.

The Spider and the Fly / 1949

"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

The Spider and the Fly / 1994

A wager between two novelists about committing the perfect crime becomes real when a murder occurs under the circumstances they had plotted in jest and either one of them might be the killer.

The Spider and the Fly / 1916

The Spider and the Fly / 1938

Few amateur films with sound were produced in the 1930s and fewer remain extant. A charming artifact that demonstrates the expressive possibilities and technical limitations of amateur talkies, "The Spider and the Fly" includes a backyard Labor Day gathering, a trip to the Riverview Amusement Park, and a homemade Halloween parade of witches and ghouls.

Spider and the Fly / 1903

A beautiful young blonde woman in scanty attire is seen reclining in the center of a set of a spider web. A well-dressed young man passes in front of her. She attracts his attention and encourages him to approach her. At first he is reluctant but then goes up and kisses her hand.

La mosca e il ragno / 1913

This short film using animated puppets to show a fly trying to escape a spider is a little masterpiece. The technique is quite surprising, and the fly's tricks reminds quite closely many later animated films.

The spider has a fly in its head / 2020

In 7 improvisations, clarinet (Bruno Cunha) and guitar (Kino Lopes) are guided by the tendency that noise posseses to induce merging. In an eighth track, Bruno creates an electronic piece with the 7 improvisations as its materials. "The spider has a fly in its head" was filmed and edited by Xavier Braun and recorded by Pedro Menezes in December 2019 at Estalo Studio. Brasília - DF, Brasil