Movie: Secret Agent

Top 10 Billed Cast

Madeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll

Elsa Carrington

John Gielgud
John Gielgud

Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre

The General

Robert Young
Robert Young

Robert Marvin

Percy Marmont
Percy Marmont

Caypor

Florence Kahn
Florence Kahn

Mrs. Caypor

Charles Carson
Charles Carson

"R"

Lilli Palmer
Lilli Palmer

Lilli

Denys Blakelock
Denys Blakelock

Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot

Man (uncredited)

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    During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.

  • Release Date

    1936-05-11

  • Average

    6.087

  • Rating:

    3.0 starts
  • Tagline

    Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!

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