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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. The film stars Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, and Robert Young.
May 8, 2010 · Week 18: ‘Secret Agent’ – 1936 Following his triumph of the previous year, Hitchcock then tackled a slightly more traditional subject involving a faked dead ex-Brit author who is signed up as a spy and embarks on a rather strange mission involving chocolate, a mysterious button, an OTT Peter Lorre performance, the as-ever luminous ...
Until recently, there was a statement on Wikipedia that Hitchcock had a cameo appearance in Secret Agent (1936): Alfred Hitchcock cameo: A signature occurrence in almost all of Hitchcock's films, he can be seen coming down the ship's gangway in front of Ashenden, at about 8 minutes into the film. The Wikipedia edit appears to be based on a ...
Jul 24, 2016 · Strangely, Hitchcock would repeat this mistake in his next film, 1936’s Sabotage, with the death of the young boy in an explosion. Here this elderly man is a casualty of war, and it’s a grim, upsetting note in an otherwise enjoyable if imperfect film. Secret Agent is streaming on Youtube and Amazon Prime.
Secret Agent: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 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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Sep 9, 2012 · The Hitchcock Conversations is an ongoing project between me and James W. Powell, in which we study Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography in chronological order. I’ll be publishing one conversation per week. (By necessity, spoilers ahead!) Synopsis: British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home during World War I to find that a government agency has faked […]
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Deception is the order of the day in this solid espionage thriller from director Alfred Hitchcock. Based on Somerset Maugham's adventure stories and a play by Campbell Nixon, Secret Agent is deceptive in every way: characters hide their true intentions, beautiful locations mask the sinister deeds that happen in them, even the film's title is tricky since the story is about several agents ...
