Secret Agent
by Alfred Hitchcock
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Actor: John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Percy Marmont, Peter Lorre, Robert YoungDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Ivor Montagu
Writer: Alma Reville
Writer: Campbell Dixon
Writer: Charles Bennett
Writer: Ian Hay
Writer: Jesse Lasky Jr.
Writer: W. Somerset Maugham
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Tgg Direct
Movie Reviews of Secret Agent
Movie Review: Secret Agent
Summary: 2 Stars
Only for fans of Hitch. Very dated for today's audience. Slow pace and confusing character development, especially Peter Lorre's "General". Stiff portrayals and a surprising lack of suspense. Where's a Macguffin when you need one?
Summary of Secret Agent
One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest pre-Hollywood films, the 1936 Secret Agent stars a young John Gielgud as a British spy whose death is faked by his intelligence superiors. Reinvented with another identity and outfitted with a wife (Madeleine Carroll), Gielgud's character is sent on assignment with a cold-blooded accomplice (Peter Lorre) to assassinate a German agent. En route, the counterfeit couple keeps company with an affable American (Robert Young), who turns out to be more than he seems after the wrong man is murdered by Gielgud and Lorre. Dense with interwoven ideas about false names and real identities, about appearances as lies and the brutality of the hidden, and about the complicity of those who watch the anarchy that others do, Secret Agent declared that Alfred Hitchcock was well along the road to mastery as a filmmaker and, more importantly, knew what it was he wanted to say for the rest of his career. The print of the film used in the DVD release is serviceable and probably comparable to an average 16mm classroom or museum presentation. The DVD also includes a Hitchcock filmography, trivia questions, a director biography, and scene access. --Tom KeoghAction & Adventure DVD Video
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