Secret Agent
film by Hitchcock [1936]
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Secret Agent (1936) is a British spy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Madeleine Carroll and Peter Lorre as undercover agents for British intelligence. The film follows their mission through the Swiss Alps to track down hostile spies. Based on W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden, the movie blends espionage with mordant humor. Hitchcock's films often feature themes of espionage, mistaken identities, and chase sequences, with Secret Agent fitting into this pattern.12
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