Secret Agent (1936) Alfred Hitchcock directs john Gielgud Full Film Thriller

Secret Agent (1936) is a British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance.

Gielgud plays a British officer, a famous writer whose death is faked during World War I, and who is sent by the mysterious "R", head of British intelligence, to Switzerland on a secret mission. Carroll plays a female agent who poses as his wife. Lorre appears as a British agent working with them, a killer known variously as "the Hairless Mexican" and "the General".
Typical Hitchcockian themes used here include mistaken identity and murder.

John Gielgud - Richard Ashenden
Peter Lorre - The General
Madeleine Carroll - Elsa Carrington
Robert Young - Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont - Caypor
Florence Kahn - Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson - 'R'
Lilli Palmer - Lilli

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