Sign in
Tip: Switch engine if buffering or experiencing loop blocks.
Sign in to keep track of what you watch and continue where you left off.

Secret Agent

1936 • 1h 26m • ★ 6.1/10 • Thriller Mystery Romance

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.

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

Mrs. Caypor

Charles Carson

Charles Carson

"R"

Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer

Lilli

👤

Denys Blakelock

Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

Man (uncredited)

Tom Helmore

Tom Helmore

Colonel Anderson (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos

Andreas Malandrinos

Manager (uncredited)

More Like This