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
Sebastian Cabot
as Man (uncredited)
Michael Redgrave
as Army Officer (uncredited)
Robert Young
as Robert Marvin
Peter Lorre
as The General
Percy Marmont
as Caypor
Charles Carson
as "R"
Howard Marion-Crawford
as Karl (uncredited)
Rène Ray
as Maid (uncredited)
Madeleine Carroll
as Elsa Carrington
Lilli Palmer
as Lilli
Tom Helmore
as Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
Andreas Malandrinos
as Manager (uncredited)
Michael Rennie
as Army Captain (uncredited)
