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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon Ivor Montagu |
| Screenplay by | Charles Bennett Alma Reville Ian Hay |
| Story by | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Starring | John Gielgud Peter Lorre Madeleine Carroll Robert Young Lilli Palmer |
| Cinematography | Bernard Knowles |
| Editing by | Charles Frend |
| Release date(s) | May 1936 (U.K.) June 15, 1936 (U.S.) |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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.
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