Secret Agent
11/05/1936
1h 26m



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
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)
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