Secret Agent
“Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!”
1936•1h 26m•6.1•Released
ThrillerMysteryRomance
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.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, Jesse Lasky Jr.
Languages
English, German
Studio
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Cast
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)
Production
Company
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Producer
Michael Balcon
Producer
Ivor Montagu
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