Film

Secret Agent

1936 · 1h 26m · Thriller · Mystery · Romance

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

IMDb

6.4

Rotten Tomatoes

86%

Metacritic

67

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.

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)

Howard Marion-Crawford

Karl (uncredited)

Rène Ray

Maid (uncredited)

Michael Redgrave

Army Officer (uncredited)

Michael Rennie

Army Captain (uncredited)

• Alfred HitchcockDirector
• Charles BennettScreenplay
• Ian HayWriter
• Jesse Lasky Jr.Writer
• W. Somerset MaughamNovel
• Michael BalconProducer
• Ivor MontaguProducer
• Bernard KnowlesDirector of Photography
• Charles FrendEditor

Release date

May 11, 1936

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

M

Genres

Thriller, Mystery, Romance

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