Movie

Secret Agent (1936)

• May 11, 1936
• 1h 26m

• Thriller
• Mystery
• Romance

“Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!”

Overview

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

Writers

W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, Jesse Lasky Jr.

Starring

Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre