Secret Agent
Summary:
Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along with The 39 Steps and Sabotage). Set during WWI, John Gielgud plays British novelist Edgar Brodie who discovers that a government agency has faked his own death. He is then given orders to go to Switzerland to kill a German agent. He goes by t... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Madeleine Carroll - (Elsa Carrington)
Peter Lorre - (The General)
John Gielgud - (Richard Ashenden)
Robert Young - (Robert Marvin)
Percy Marmont - (Caypor)
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Review:
Deception is the order of the day in this solid espionage thriller from director Alfred Hitchcock. Based on Somerset Maugham's adventure stories and a play by Campbell Nixon, Secret Agent is deceptive in every way: characters hide their true intentions, beautiful locations mask the sinister deeds that happen in them, even the film's tit... Continue >>
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