
Release Date
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Original Release
May 11, 1936
1h 26m
Secret Agent (1936)
⭐ 6.186 min
Overview
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.
Director

Alfred Hitchcock
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 4.0
Cast

Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
⭐0.9

John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
⭐2.0

Peter Lorre
The General
⭐1.1

Robert Young
Robert Marvin
⭐1.4

Percy Marmont
Caypor
⭐0.7
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Florence Kahn
Mrs. Caypor
⭐0.2

Charles Carson
"R"
⭐0.8

Lilli Palmer
Lilli
⭐1.0
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Denys Blakelock
Man (uncredited)
⭐0.3

Sebastian Cabot
Man (uncredited)
⭐0.8
Genres
ThrillerMysteryRomance
Production Companies
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation



