Secret Agent (1936)
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.
Thriller, Mystery, Romance
Cast
- Madeleine Carroll — Elsa Carrington
- John Gielgud — Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
- Peter Lorre — The General
- Robert Young — Robert Marvin
- Percy Marmont — Caypor
- Florence Kahn — Mrs. Caypor
- Charles Carson — "R"
- Lilli Palmer — Lilli
- Denys Blakelock — Man (uncredited)
- Sebastian Cabot — Man (uncredited)
- Tom Helmore — Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
- Andreas Malandrinos — Manager (uncredited)
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