Secret Agent (1936)
John Gielgud
Peter Lorre
Madeleine Carroll



Genres
Drama, Silent

Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers
W. Somerset Maugham (novel Ashenden)
Campbell Dixon (play)
Charles Bennett
Ian Hay (dialogue)
Jesse Lasky Jr. (additional dialogue)
Alma Reville (uncredited)
Director of Photography
Bernard Knowles

Review
Strange blend of comedy and thriller elements which don't quite mesh; Carroll and Gielgud are secret agents who pose as man and wife while on assignment in Switzerland to kill enemy spy. One of Hitchcock's oddest films.


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