Secret Agent

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.

• Alfred HitchcockDirector
• Charles BennettScreenplay
• Jesse Lasky Jr.Writer
• Ian HayWriter

• Madeleine CarrollElsa Carrington
• John GielgudRichard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
• Peter LorreThe General
• Robert YoungRobert Marvin
• Percy MarmontCaypor
• Florence KahnMrs. Caypor
• Charles Carson"R"
• Lilli PalmerLilli
• Denys BlakelockMan (uncredited)
• Sebastian CabotMan (uncredited)
• Tom HelmoreColonel Anderson (uncredited)
• Andreas MalandrinosManager (uncredited)