Secret Agent

Synopsis

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.

When & where

Streaming on

• FilmBox+↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Madeleine Carroll
  as Elsa Carrington
• 
  John Gielgud
  as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
• 
  Peter Lorre
  as The General
• 
  Robert Young
  as Robert Marvin
• 
  Percy Marmont
  as Caypor
• F
  Florence Kahn
  as Mrs. Caypor

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