Secret Agent
Secret Agent
Release: 1936-05-31
·Runtime: 86m
·★ 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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Cast
John Gielgud
as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre
as The General
Lilli Palmer
as Lilli
Sebastian Cabot
as Man (uncredited)
Tom Helmore
as Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
Madeleine Carroll
as Elsa Carrington
Charles Carson
as "R"
Michael Redgrave
as Army Officer (uncredited)
Michael Rennie
as Army Captain (uncredited)
Andreas Malandrinos
as Manager (uncredited)
Howard Marion-Crawford
as Karl (uncredited)
Rène Ray
as Maid (uncredited)
Robert Young
as Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont
as Caypor
