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Secret Agent

6.119361h 26mMovieThrillerMysteryRomance

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…

DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
WritersCharles Bennett·Ian Hay
ProducersIvor Montagu·Michael Balcon

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Cast · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

MCMadeleine Carroll
Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
JGJohn Gielgud
John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
PLPeter Lorre
Peter Lorre
The General
RYRobert Young
Robert Young
Robert Marvin
PMPercy Marmont
Percy Marmont
Caypor
FK
Florence Kahn
Mrs. Caypor
CCCharles Carson
Charles Carson
"R"
LPLilli Palmer
Lilli Palmer
Lilli
DB
Denys Blakelock
Man (uncredited)
SCSebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot
Man (uncredited)
THTom Helmore
Tom Helmore
Colonel Anderson (uncredited)
AMAndreas Malandrinos
Andreas Malandrinos
Manager (uncredited)

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