Secret Agent (1936 film)
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon Ivor Montagu |
| Written by | W. Somerset Maugham (novel) Alma Reville (screenplay) |
| Starring | John Gielgud Peter Lorre Madeleine Carroll Robert Young Lilli Palmer |
| Cinematography | Bernard Knowles |
| Editing by | Charles Frend |
| Release date(s) | May 1936 (U.K.) June 15, 1936 (U.S.) |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Secret Agent is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance.
[edit] Plot
Gielgud plays a British officer, a once famous writer whose death is faked during World War I, and is sent by the mysterious "R", head of British intelligence, to Switzerland on a secret mission. Meanwhile, Carroll plays a female agent who poses as his wife. Together, they meet their contact in the country, Lorre.
Typical Hitchcockian themes used here include mistaken identity and murder.
[edit] Cast
- John Gielgud - Richard Ashenden
- Peter Lorre - The General
- Madeleine Carroll - Elsa Carrington
- Robert Young - Robert Marvin
- Percy Marmont - Caypor
- Florence Kahn - Mrs. Caypor
- Charles Carson - 'R'
- Lilli Palmer - Lilli
[edit] External links
- Secret Agent at the Internet Movie Database
- Secret Agent available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
- View online
- Elisabeth Weis, 1982, The Silent Scream — Alfred Hitchcock's Sound Track (1982), "Expressionism at its Height: Secret Agent" — a discussion of Hitchcoock's use of sound in the film.
- Movie Diva, 2001 review
- Secret Agent Eyegate Gallery
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