Secret Agent (1936)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

drama film, comedy film, action film, crime film, romance film, mystery film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

M

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 171 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War I, a British author is recruited to be a spy and sent on a mission to assassinate a German agent in Switzerland. He and his fellow agents become entangled in a web of mistaken identity and moral doubt.

tensesuspensefuldarkly comicwittyfast-pacedcleverunpredictablecynical

What happens

Secret Agent is a 1936 British spy 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. The film stars Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, and Robert Young. It also features uncredited appearances by Michael Redgrave, future star of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Michel Saint-Denis as the Coachman, and Michael Rennie in his film debut. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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