Secret Agent
1936 · TMDB 6.1
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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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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 ambivalen...
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- Runtime
- 86 min
- Released
- 1936-05-11
- Studio
- Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.1
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Key contributors
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Alfred Hitchcock
Director
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Charles Bennett
Writer
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Ian Hay
Writer
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Jesse Lasky Jr.
Writer
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Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
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John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
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Peter Lorre
The General
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Robert Young
Robert Marvin
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Percy Marmont
Caypor
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Florence Kahn
Mrs. Caypor
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Charles Carson
"R"
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Lilli Palmer
Lilli