Secret Agent

Secret Agent

Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!

1936 · 86 min · ★ 6.1 · 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.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Written by Charles Bennett

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Madeleine Carroll Elsa Carrington
John Gielgud Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre The General
Robert Young Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont Caypor
Florence Kahn Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson "R"
Lilli Palmer Lilli
Denys Blakelock Man (uncredited)
Sebastian Cabot Man (uncredited)
Tom Helmore Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
Andreas Malandrinos Manager (uncredited)

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