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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.
- 15 June 1936
- John Greenwood, Louis Levy (director)
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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- Alfred Hitchcock
- Not Rated
- Mystery, Thriller
Secret Agent (1936) Secret Agent (1936) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis British intelligence fakes the death of Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) to send him on a mission in Switzerland, where as ...
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- John Gielgud
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Mystery & Thriller
Novelist-turned-soldier Edgar Brodie is recruited by British intelligence during World War I to ferret out a mysterious German spy and eliminate him. Brodie is given a new identity by his "handler," R, and teamed with two professional agents, an amoral, but amusingly deadly assassin known as The General and Elsa Carrington, a beautiful blonde ...
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Mar 21, 2021 · Secret Agent (1936) 03/21/2021 | 1h 26m ... is sent to Switzerland on a secret mission to identify and kill a German agent, in this Alfred Hitchcock film that also stars Peter Lorre and Madeleine ...
- 86 min
Black and White. Theatrical Aspect Ratio. 1.37 : 1. Film Length. 7,809ft. 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.