Secret Agent
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 9, 2015
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: Reel Vault
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Gielgud, Robert Young, Madeleine Carroll & Peter Lorre | |
Performer: | Percy Marmont, Lilli Palmer, Florence Kahn, Charles Carson & Andreas Malandrinos | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | Charles Frend | |
Screenplay by | Charles Bennett | |
Composition by | Louis Levy | |
Story by | W. Somerset Maugham | |
Produced by | Michael Balcon & Ivor Montagu | |
Director of Photography: | Bernard Knowles |
Entertainment Reviews:
One of the weirdest movies Alfred Hitchcock ever made.
New Yorker
This thriller may not be one of Hitchcock's best English films, but it is full of startling set pieces and quirky characterisation.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
John Gielgud might not be everyone's ideal Hitchcock hero, and contemporary critics were quick to point out his lack of derring-do, but, in fact, he acquits himself admirably in this engaging thriller.
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Radio Times
Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred Hitchcock, Secret Agent is a first-rate sample of his knack of achieving speed by never hurrying, horror by concentrating on the prosaic.
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TIME Magazine
In spite of many brilliant touches Alfred Hitchcock's third film is disappointing. The British producer fails to establish that tense atmosphere of The Man Who Knew Too Much" and The 39 Steps.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Good British spy thriller.
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Maclean's Magazine
There is much to be said for the technical quality and finish of this film; but the puzzling indeterminacy of outlook which pervades it makes it less than a completed whole.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Product Description:
England mourns the loss of war hero and famed novelist Edgar Brodie as this tangled spy mystery begins. The only problem is that Brodie (John Gielgud) is among the last to know. Returning from the war, he discovers that he has been declared dead, singled out for a new identity, and given a special assignment that will include his new "wife," Elsa (Madeleine Carrol). They are joined by the cool and deadly hit man the General (Peter Lorre) and also pick up the talkative gadfly American Robert Marvin (Robert Young). From the start the mission goes awry as the trio of British agents discover their local informant dead, with a button clenched in his hand the only clue to who killed him. As they struggle to complete their mission a complex love tangle develops with Robert and the General competing for Elsa's affections as she gauges Brodie's indifference. Each follows his or her best instincts, setting up the dramatic climax.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 45,848
- UPC: 644827297924
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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