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Play Time: 86 mins
Thriller, Mystery, Romance
Secret Agent

Overview:
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.

Status: Released (1936-05-31)
Awards:4 wins total
Screen:Campbell Dixon, W. Somerset Maugham, Charles Bennett
Productions: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Spoken Languages: English, Deutsch
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John Gielgud charmingly portrays the novelist-cum-officer dragooned by the British spy service into travelling to Switzerland on the trail of a Nazi spy. He is assigned two assistants - a rather naive, but keen, Madeleine Carroll "Elsa" and a suitable sleazy, but lethal, Peter Lorre ....

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