Secret Agent

Secret Agent

★ 6.1IMDb Score
Released:1936-05-11
Duration:86 min
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Actors:Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Robert Young, Percy Marmont
Production:Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

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.

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