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Secret Agent is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the play by Campbell Dixon, which in turn is loosely based on two stories in the 1927 collection Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham.
With John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young. After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Apr 16, 2013 · After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the missi...
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Jun 3, 2015 Full Review TIME Magazine Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred Hitchcock, Secret Agent is a first-rate sample of his knack of achieving speed by never hurrying ...
Between Hitchcock’s culturally iconic hit of “39 Steps,” and his polarizing experimental suspense film, “Sabotage,” slipped in “Secret Agent.” The movie, an adaption of a W. Somerset Maugh novel, has a pair of English spooks teaming up to bust a covert German base inside of a chocolate factory.
Brief Synopsis. During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and then Elsa Carrington who helps him in his duty.
