Secret Agent is a 1936 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 once famous writer whose death is faked during World War I, and is sent by the mysterious "R", head of British intel...
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Initial release date:
- 1936
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Runtime:
- 86 min (52 hs )