Secret Agent
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
Campbell Dixon (play), Charles Bennett (screenplay), W. Somerset Maugham (novel)
Cast:
John Gielgud as Richard Ashenden / Brodie, Peter Lorre as The General, Robert Young as Robert Marvin, Madeleine Carroll as Else Carrington
Released 1936
As WWI wages three British agents are sent to assassinate a mysterious German spy. Two begin to have serious questions of conscience as the time of the killing closes.