Secret Agent
movie
Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!
Released May 11, 1936
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.
Cast
Madeleine Carroll
as
Elsa Carrington
John Gielgud
as
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre
as
The General
Robert Young
as
Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont
as
Caypor
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Florence Kahn
as
Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson
as
"R"
Lilli Palmer
as
Lilli
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Denys Blakelock
as
Man (uncredited)
Sebastian Cabot
as
Man (uncredited)
Tom Helmore
as
Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
Andreas Malandrinos
as
Manager (uncredited)
Crew
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Campbell Dixon
as
Theatre Play
W. Somerset Maugham
as
Novel
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Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
as
Art Direction
Charles Frend
as
Editor
Alfred Hitchcock
as
Director
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Bernard Knowles
as
Director of Photography
Michael Balcon
as
Producer
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Ivor Montagu
as
Producer
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Stephen Dade
as
Camera Operator
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Albert Jullion
as
Set Dressing Artist
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Phillip Dorté
as
Sound Recordist
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Joe Strassner
as
Costume Design