Secret Agent (1936)

6.1/10 86 min Thriller Mystery Romance

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.

Cast

Madeleine Carroll

Elsa Carrington

John Gielgud

Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

Peter Lorre

The General

Robert Young

Robert Marvin

Percy Marmont

Caypor

Charles Carson

"R"

Lilli Palmer

Lilli

Sebastian Cabot

Man (uncredited)

Tom Helmore

Colonel Anderson (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos

Manager (uncredited)

Howard Marion-Crawford

Karl (uncredited)

Rène Ray

Maid (uncredited)

Michael Redgrave

Army Officer (uncredited)

Michael Rennie

Army Captain (uncredited)

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