Release Date: 1936-05-31
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.
Rating: 6.097 / 10
Madeleine Carroll
as Elsa Carrington
John Gielgud
as Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre
as The General
Robert Young
as Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont
as Caypor
Alfred Hitchcock - Director
W. Somerset Maugham - Novel
Campbell Dixon - Theatre Play
Charles Bennett - Screenplay
Michael Balcon - Producer
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...