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Secret Agent is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the play by Campbell Dixon, which in turn is loosely based on two stories in the 1927 collection Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. [1]
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With John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young. After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
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- Mystery, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1936-06-15
British intelligence fakes the death of Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) to send him on a mission in Switzerland, where as Richard Ashendon he is to locate and kill a...
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- John Gielgud
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Mystery & Thriller
During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and then Elsa Carrington who helps him in his duty.
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Madeleine Carroll
Secret Agent is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the play by Campbell Dixon, which in turn is loosely based on two stories in the 1927 collection Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham.
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Feb 14, 2020 · Based on stories by W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent stars John Gielgud as a British novelist, Edgar Brodie, who is drawn into the dangerous world of espionage during World War I. Sent to Switzerland to eliminate an enemy agent, he teams up with a lovely novice spy (Madeleine Carroll) and an eccentric assassin (Peter Lorre). By a tragic ...
