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Secret Agent
From Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
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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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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Madeleine CarrollElsa Carrington
John GielgudRichard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter LorreThe General
Robert YoungRobert Marvin
Percy MarmontCayporFlorence KahnMrs. Caypor
Charles Carson"R"
Lilli PalmerLilliDenys BlakelockMan (uncredited)
Sebastian CabotMan (uncredited)
Tom HelmoreColonel Anderson (uncredited)
Andreas MalandrinosManager (uncredited)Images · 3
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CinemaSerfJun 19, 2022
John Gielgud charmingly portrays the novelist-cum-officer dragooned by the British spy service into travelling to Switzerland on the trail of a Nazi spy. He is assigned two assistants - a rather naive, but keen, Madeleine Carroll "Elsa" and a suitable sleazy, but lethal, Peter Lorre "as The General". Their first attempt to fulfil their mission goes awry somewhat, as they dispatch the wrong person. It is at this point their consciences start to kick in and they question the mo… Read more
rals of their mission - particularly when they actually do discover the identity of the enemy secret agent. Hitchcock and Charles Bennett adapt the Somerset Maugham story with plenty of attention to the detail and the characterisation; the direction is taut and the suspense on the train towards the end keep this enthralling.