Secret Agent (1936)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1936-05-31
Runtime: 86 minutes
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Top Cast
- Madeleine Carroll as Elsa Carrington
- John Gielgud as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
- Peter Lorre as The General
- Robert Young as Robert Marvin
- Percy Marmont as Caypor
- Florence Kahn as Mrs. Caypor
- Charles Carson as "R"
- Lilli Palmer as Lilli
- Denys Blakelock as Man (uncredited)
- Sebastian Cabot as Man (uncredited)
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