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Secret Agent
“Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!”
6.1 / 10• 1936• 1h 26m•NR• English
ThrillerMysteryRomance
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
Lead
John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre
The General
Robert Young
Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont
Caypor
FK
Florence Kahn
Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson
"R"
Lilli Palmer
Lilli
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alfred Hitchcock's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Secret Agent is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
