Secret Agent

John Gielgud is recruited as a spy and assigned to kill an unknown enemy agent in Switzerland. With the help of Peter Lorre, they kill the wrong man while suave Robert Young tries to escape by train. Based on the novel "Ashenden" by W. Somerset Maugham. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Credits

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
Jesse Louis Lasky Jr., Alma Reville, Charles Bennett, John Hay Beith, William Somerset Maugham, Campbell Dixon
Cast
Lilli Palmer, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Michael Redgrave, Robert Young, Tom Helmore, John Gielgud, Michael Rennie, Percy Marmont, Charles Carson
Produced by
Ivor Montagu, Michael Balcon
Cinematography
Bernard Knowles
Music
Louis Levy
Edited by
Charles Frend
Complete catalog record
, A novelist army hero-turned-government spy is assigned to track down and kill another agent. He and his accomplice arrive in Switzerland where he meets a young woman recruited to play his wife. The enemy agent is apprehended on a train which is then wrecked. (Does not circulate)
, NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q510595 ↗ — country, credits