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Secret Agent (1936)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
“Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!”
Thriller, Mystery, Romance · 1h 26m
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.
Cast
Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre
The General
Robert Young
Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont
Caypor
F
Florence Kahn
Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson
"R"
Lilli Palmer
Lilli
D
Denys Blakelock
Man (uncredited)
Sebastian Cabot
Man (uncredited)
Tom Helmore
Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
Andreas Malandrinos
Manager (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay
- Charles Bennett
- Writer
- Ian Hay, Jesse Lasky Jr.
- Novel
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Director of Photography
- Bernard Knowles
- Editor
- Charles Frend
- Producer
- Ivor Montagu, Michael Balcon
Details
- Release date
- 1936-05-11
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Thriller, Mystery, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, German
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Gaumont-British Picture Corporation