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TMDb Rating
6.1/10

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Secret Agent (1936)

ThrillerMysteryRomance
86 min

"Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!"

Plot Summary

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.

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Top Cast

Madeleine CarrollJohn GielgudPeter LorreRobert YoungPercy Marmont

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