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Secret Agent (1936)

Release Dates:	May 1936 (UK) June 15, 1936 (USA)
Written by:	W. Somerset Maugham (novel) Campbell Dixon (play) Ian Hay (diolog) Charles Bennett (screenplay) Jesse Lasky Jr. (additional diolog)
Starring:	John Gielgud and Peter Lorre
Original Score :	Hubert Bath
Cinematography:	Bernard Knowles
Edited by :	Charles Frend
Running Time :	86 minutes
Filmed in :	Black and White
Studio(s) :	Gaumont British Picture Corp.

Alfred Hitchcock's Cameo:

There is no apperance by Hitchcock in this film.

Plot Summary:

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.

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Cast List:

John Gielgud	Edgar Brodie/Rich 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

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