Secret Agent

1936

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Starring

Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre

Runtime

1h 26m

Country

USA

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.