Secret Agent

feature film, triler, UK, 1936

DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock

Secret Agent

CAST:
Madeleine Carroll,
John Gielgud,
Peter Lorre,
Robert Young,
Percy Marmont

SCRIPT:
Charles Bennett (based on stories by W. Somerset Maugham and play by Campbell Dixon)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Bernard Knowles

MUSIC:
John Greenwood

EDITING:
Charles Frend

Synopsis:
This is the story of a secret agent, Richard Ashenden, who is sent to Switzerland to find and murder a spy. However, he has no idea what the spy looks like, and mistakenly kills an innocent tourist… This is not an excessively valued film by Hitchcock, but it is still impressive because of the unique directing style and excellent actors.

b/w, 86'

Trailer