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Secret Agent

6.1 86 mins Thriller   Mystery   Romance   1936
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation  
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock

Release Date: 11 Mon, May 1936

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.

Casts of Secret Agent

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

Lilli Palmer

as Lilli

Denys Blakelock

as Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot

as Man (uncredited)

Tom Helmore

as Colonel Anderson (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos

as Manager (uncredited)

Howard Marion-Crawford

as Karl (uncredited)

Rène Ray

as Maid (uncredited)

Michael Redgrave

as Army Officer (uncredited)

Michael Rennie

as Army Captain (uncredited)

Michel Saint-Denis

as Coachman (uncredited)

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