Secret Agent
Sign in to save1936 film by Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Released: 1936-05-1186 minDir: Alfred HitchcockThriller, Mystery, Romance
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
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Key dates
- Published
- 28 September 1936
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Alps
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenwriter
- Campbell Dixon
- Cast member
- Michael Rennie
- Composer
- Louis Levy
- Producer
- Ivor Montagu
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1930s romantic thriller films1930s spy thriller films1936 British films1936 English-language films1936 filmsBritish black-and-white filmsBritish romantic thriller filmsBritish spy thriller filmsEnglish-language romantic thriller filmsEnglish-language spy thriller filmsFilms about railway accidents and incidentsFilms based on multiple works