
Secret Agent
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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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.

Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
StarringMadeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Robert Young, Percy Marmont, Florence Kahn
Written byCharles Bennett, Jesse Lasky Jr., Ian Hay
CinematographyBernard Knowles
MusicHubert Bath
Secret Agent
1936 · 1h 26m
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.
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