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Secret Agent

Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!

1936 · 1h 26m

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

6.1

TMDB audience score
179 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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)

  • Howard Marion-Crawford
    Karl (uncredited)

  • Rène Ray
    Maid (uncredited)

  • Michael Redgrave
    Army Officer (uncredited)

  • Michael Rennie
    Army Captain (uncredited)

  • Michel Saint-Denis
    Coachman (uncredited)