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Secret Agent

Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!
May 11, 1936 · 1h 26m
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Thriller
Mystery
Romance

PLOT

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
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Country
GB

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