Secret Agent (1936)

Secret Agent (1936)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Campbell Dixon
W. Somerset Maugham (based on the novel "Ashenden")
Release Date: 15 June 1936 (USA)
Genre: Comedy - Drama - Mystery - Romance - Thriller


* Cast :


John Gielgud ... Ashenden
Peter Lorre ... The General
Madeleine Carroll ... Elsa
Robert Young ... Marvin
Percy Marmont ... Caypor
Florence Kahn ... Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson ... 'R'
Lilli Palmer ... Lilli


* Plot:


British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home during WWI to find that a government agency has faked a report of his death.


They get him to change his name to Richard Ashenden and travel to Switzerland to track down a German agent.