Not part of a collection.
Secret Agent
Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!
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.
- Original title
- Secret Agent
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Jun 19, 2022 · via TMDB
John Gielgud charmingly portrays the novelist-cum-officer dragooned by the British spy service into travelling to Switzerland on the trail of a Nazi spy. He is assigned two assistants - a rather naive, but keen, Madeleine Carroll "Elsa" and a suitable sleazy, but lethal, Peter Lorre "as The General". Their first attempt to fulfil their mission goes awry somewhat, as they dispatch the wrong person. It is at this point their consciences start to kick in and they question the morals of their mission - particularly when they actually do discover the identity of the enemy secret agent. Hitchcock and Charles Bennett adapt the Somerset Maugham story with plenty of attention to the detail and the characterisation; the direction is taut and the suspense on the train towards the end keep this enthralling.
User reviews courtesy of TMDB.
Amazon Video
Apple TV Store
FilmBox+
Artiflix
Amazon Video
Apple TV Store
Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre
The General
Robert Young
Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont
Caypor
Charles Carson
"R"
Lilli Palmer
Lilli
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)
Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Charles Frend
Editor
Michael Balcon
Producer
W. Somerset Maugham
Novel
Charles Bennett
Screenplay
Jesse Lasky Jr.
Writer
The Shining
M
La Jetée
Rififi
The Big Sleep
The Philadelphia Story
The Birds
The Manchurian Candidate
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Scarface
Murder She Said
The China Syndrome
From Russia with Love
Bullitt
Frenzy
Shanghai Express
Mission: Impossible III
Silent Hill
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Perhaps
Attraction
The Night of the Generals
The Black Book
Awake
River Wild
Salt
The Number 23
Shuffle
The Commuter
The Infernal Machine
The International
All the Devils Are Here
Trigger Point
Last Man Down
Cleaner
All the Old Knives
Stowaway
Across the Hall
The Engineer
Brake
Jun 12, 1936
New York City, New York
Jun 15, 1936
