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Secret Agent

Secret Agent
★ 6.1/10•1936•1h 26m•M•Thriller•Mystery•Romance

Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!

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.

Alfred Hitchcock · Director

Charles Bennett · Screenplay

Jesse Lasky Jr. · Writer

Ian Hay · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 26m
LanguageEN
Release DateMay 11, 1936

Actors

Madeleine Carroll

Madeleine Carroll

Elsa Carrington

John Gielgud

John Gielgud

Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

The General

Robert Young

Robert Young

Robert Marvin

Percy Marmont

Percy Marmont

Caypor

Florence Kahn

Mrs. Caypor

Charles Carson

Charles Carson

"R"

Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer

Lilli

Denys Blakelock

Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

Man (uncredited)

Tom Helmore

Tom Helmore

Colonel Anderson (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos

Andreas Malandrinos

Manager (uncredited)

Howard Marion-Crawford

Howard Marion-Crawford

Karl (uncredited)

Rène Ray

Rène Ray

Maid (uncredited)

Michael Redgrave

Michael Redgrave

Army Officer (uncredited)

Michael Rennie

Michael Rennie

Army Captain (uncredited)

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