Secret Agent
- Released on
- Runtime
- 86 mins
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.
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
- John Gielgud
- Peter Lorre
- Robert Young
- Percy Marmont
- Florence Kahn
- Charles Carson
- Lilli Palmer
- Denys Blakelock
- Sebastian Cabot
- Tom Helmore
- Andreas Malandrinos
- Howard Marion-Crawford
- Rène Ray
- Michael Redgrave
- Michael Rennie
- Michel Saint-Denis
Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
Producers
- Michael Balcon
- Ivor Montagu
Screenwriter
- Charles Bennett
