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Secret Agent
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Secret Agent

May 11, 1936
1h 26m
★ 6.1

Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!

Overview

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.

Genres

Thriller
Mystery
Romance

Production Companies

Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

Secret Agent Trailers

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Cast

Madeleine Carroll

Elsa Carrington

Madeleine Carroll

John Gielgud

Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

John Gielgud

Peter Lorre

The General

Peter Lorre

Robert Young

Robert Marvin

Robert Young

Percy Marmont

Caypor

Percy Marmont

Florence Kahn

Mrs. Caypor

Florence Kahn

Charles Carson

"R"

Charles Carson

Lilli Palmer

Lilli

Lilli Palmer

Denys Blakelock

Man (uncredited)

Denys Blakelock

Sebastian Cabot

Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot

Tom Helmore

Colonel Anderson (uncredited)

Tom Helmore

Andreas Malandrinos

Manager (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos

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