Secret Agent
1936 · directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Rating
- 68/100
- Hit
- no
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.
Secret Agent (1936), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, rates 68/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Madeleine Carroll
- John Gielgud
- Peter Lorre
- Robert Young
- Percy Marmont
- Florence Kahn
- Charles Carson
- Lilli Palmer
- Denys Blakelock
- Sebastian Cabot
Crew
- Bernard Knowles — Director of Photography
- Charles Frend — Editor
- Charles Bennett — Screenplay
- Ian Hay — Writer
- Jesse Lasky Jr. — Writer
More from Alfred Hitchcock
- Rear Window (1954) — 100/100 · hit
- North by Northwest (1959) — 99/100 · hit
- Vertigo (1958) — 99/100 · hit
- Psycho (1960) — 99/100 · hit
- Rebecca (1940) — 89/100 · hit
- Notorious (1946) — 86/100 · hit
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