 | Secret Agent: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young (1936 Movie)
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org 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. painter gold watch party assumed dead beautiful woman deceit beaten to death embezzlement hearing voices banker painting toenails lingerie slip sharing umbrella bird imitation ice pick whispering theft wrong man lighting cigar electric chair femme fatale capital punishment adultery newspaper headline murder art exhibition assaulting eye patch execution 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. Cast John Gielgud - Richard Ashenden Peter Lorre - The General Madeleine Carroll - Elsa Carrington Robert Young - Robert Marvin Percy Marmont - Caypor Florence Kahn - Mrs. Caypor Charles Carson - 'R' Lilli Palmer - Lilli Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (pronounced /ˈɡiːlɡʊd/; 14 April 1904 -- 21 May 2000) was an English actor, director, and producer. A ...
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