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.

Cast

Madeleine Carroll

Madeleine Carroll

as Elsa Carrington

John Gielgud

John Gielgud

as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

as The General

Robert Young

Robert Young

as Robert Marvin

Percy Marmont

Percy Marmont

as Caypor

Florence Kahn

Florence Kahn

as Mrs. Caypor

Charles Carson

Charles Carson

as "R"

Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer

as Lilli

Denys Blakelock

Denys Blakelock

as Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

as Man (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

John Gielgud charmingly portrays the novelist-cum-officer dragooned by the British spy service into travelling to Switzerland on the trail of a Nazi spy. He is assigned two assistants - a rather naive, but keen, Madeleine Carroll "Elsa" and a suitable sleazy, but lethal, Peter Lorre "as The General"...

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