Secret Agent

Secret Agent

61% | May 31, 1936 | Thriller, Mystery, Romance

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.

Featured Cast

Alfred Hitchcock
Director
W. Somerset Maugham
Novel

Cast

Elsa Carrington
Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
The General
Peter Lorre
The General
Robert Marvin
Robert Young
Robert Marvin

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