Secret Agent

Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

John Gielgud	Edgar Brodie / Richard Ashenden
Peter Lorre	The General
Madeleine Carroll	Elsa Carrington
Robert Young	Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont	Caypor
Florence Kahn	Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson	'R'
Lilli Palmer	Lilli
Sebastian Cabot	Bit Role
Tom Helmore	Colonel Anderson

Director	Alfred Hitchcock
Producer	Michael Balcon; Ivor Montagu
Writer	W. Somerset Maugham; Campbell Dixon

It's 1916 and Edgar Brodie, an accomplished novelist, returns to England from a tour of duty in the war only to discover that he is officially dead. Given a new name, Brodie is sent into Switzerland with a small entourage to kill a German secret agent. Mistrust and tragedy complicate the mission, which proves to have serious political as well as romantic stakes.