Secret Agent
Released
May 11, 1936
Runtime: 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.
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Cast & Crew
Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre
The General
Robert Young
Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont
Caypor
- FK
Florence Kahn
Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson
"R"
Lilli Palmer
Lilli
- DB
Denys Blakelock
Man (uncredited)
Sebastian Cabot
Man (uncredited)
Tom Helmore
Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
Andreas Malandrinos
Manager (uncredited)
Howard Marion-Crawford
Karl (uncredited)
Rène Ray
Maid (uncredited)
Michael Redgrave
Army Officer (uncredited)
Michael Rennie
Army Captain (uncredited)
- MS
Michel Saint-Denis
Coachman (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Charles Bennett
Screenplay
- IH
Ian Hay
Writer
Jesse Lasky Jr.
Writer
Media
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