Secret Agent (1936)
  • Secret Agent (1936)
  • Secret Agent (1936)
  • Secret Agent (1936)
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Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along with The 39 Steps and Sabotage). Set during WWI, John Gielgud plays British novelist Edgar Brodie who discovers that a gover...
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  • Edgar Brodie: Oh, I`m to have an assistant, am I? `R`: Yes, and in the circumstances, a very useful one. We call him the "Hairless Mexican". Edgar Brodie: Oh? Why? `R`: Well, chiefly because he`s got a lot of curly hair and isn`t a Mexican. You can call him The General. He isn`t a general, but he`ll appreciate the compliment.
  • Edgar Brodie: We aren`t hunting a fox, we`re hunting a man. He`s an oldish man, with a wife. Oh, I know it`s war and it`s our job to do it, but that doesn`t prevent it being murder - simple murder!
  • Mrs. Caypor: Do you understand German, Mr. Marvin? Robert Marvin: No, but I speak it fluently.
  • `R`: Tell me. Do you love your country? Edgar Brodie: Well, I`d just died for it.
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  • Director Cameo(Alfred Hitchcock): coming down the ship`s gangway in front of Ashenden.
  • Based on W. Somerset Maugham`s "Ashenden" spy stories ("The Traitor" and "The Hairless Mexican") and a play by Campbell Dixon.
  • Michael Rennie`s first film.
  • John Gielgud filmed this during the day while appearing on stage in "Romeo and Juliet" opposite Peggy Ashcroft and Laurence Olivier in the evening.
  • Alfred Hitchcock reflected (regarding John Gielgud`s lack of heroics): "You can`t root for a hero who doesn`t want to be one."
  • Alfred Hitchcock convinced John Gielgud to play the lead by describing the hero as a modern day Hamlet. Gielgud, however, ended up hating that his character was an enigma and felt Hitchcock made the villain more charming than the hero
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