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Secret Agent
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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.
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Synopsis
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.
More about Secret Agent
Cast
Madeleine CarrollElsa Carrington
John GielgudRichard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter LorreThe General
Robert YoungRobert Marvin
Percy MarmontCaypor
Charles Carson"R"
Lilli PalmerLilliCredits
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by
- Ian Hay, Jesse Lasky Jr., Charles Bennett, W. Somerset Maugham
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
Production
- Gaumont-British Picture CorporationUnited Kingdom
