Secret Agent
1936 · 86 min
Thriller · Mystery · Romance
★ 6.1During 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.
Crew
- Director Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay Charles Bennett
- Writer Ian Hay
- Writer Jesse Lasky Jr.
- Director of Photography Bernard Knowles
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
- Writer — Jesse Lasky Jr.
- Director of Photography — Bernard Knowles
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