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Secret Agent

61% | May 31, 1936 | Thriller, Mystery, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

Alfred Hitchcock
Director
W. Somerset Maugham
Novel

Cast

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Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
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John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
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Peter Lorre
The General
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Robert Young
Robert Marvin

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