British Agent

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

Cast

Leslie Howard

as Stephen 'Steve' Locke

Kay Francis

as Elena Moura

William Gargan

as Bob Medill

Phillip Reed

as Gaston LeFarge

Irving Pichel

as Sergei Pavlov

Ivan F. Simpson

as 'Poohbah' Evans

Halliwell Hobbes

as Sir Walter Carrister

J. Carrol Naish

as Commissioner of War Trotsky

Walter Byron

as Under Secretary Stanley

Cesar Romero

as Tito Del Val

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Leslie Howard is "Locke", a British Consul-General in revolutionary Russia charged with trying to persuade the new Provisional government not to to abandon their pact with the allies and make peace with the Kaiser. It soon becomes clear that this new government is in a pretty precarious position too...

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