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

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.

Plot

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

External links

Secret Agent at IMDb
Secret Agent is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Elisabeth Weis, 1982, The Silent Scream — Alfred Hitchcock's Sound Track (1982), "Expressionism at its Height: Secret Agent" — a discussion of Hitchcoock's use of sound in the film.
Movie Diva, 2001 review
Secret Agent Eyegate Gallery

Alfred Hitchcock

Feature films

Silent films	The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mountain Eagle (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) The Ring (1927) Downhill (1927) The Farmer's Wife (1928) Easy Virtue (1928) Champagne (1928) The Manxman (1929)
British sound films	Blackmail (1929) Juno and the Paycock (1930) Murder! (1930) Elstree Calling (1930) The Skin Game (1931) Mary (1931) Rich and Strange (1931) Number Seventeen (1932) Waltzes from Vienna (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The 39 Steps (1935) Secret Agent (1936) Sabotage (1936) Young and Innocent (1937) The Lady Vanishes (1938) Jamaica Inn (1939)
Hollywood and later	Rebecca (1940) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) Suspicion (1941) Saboteur (1942) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Lifeboat (1944) Spellbound (1945) Notorious (1946) The Paradine Case (1947) Rope (1948) Under Capricorn (1949) Stage Fright (1950) Strangers on a Train (1951) I Confess (1953) Dial M for Murder (1954) Rear Window (1954) To Catch a Thief (1955) The Trouble with Harry (1955) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) Vertigo (1958) North by Northwest (1959) Psycho (1960) The Birds (1963) Marnie (1964) Torn Curtain (1966) Topaz (1969) Frenzy (1972) Family Plot (1976)