

Secret Agent
Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!
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.
Cast

Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington

John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

Peter Lorre
The General

Robert Young
Robert Marvin

Percy Marmont
Caypor
Florence Kahn
Mrs. Caypor

Charles Carson
"R"

Lilli Palmer
Lilli
Denys Blakelock
Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot
Man (uncredited)

Tom Helmore
Colonel Anderson (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos
Manager (uncredited)

Howard Marion-Crawford
Karl (uncredited)

Rène Ray
Maid (uncredited)

Michael Redgrave
Army Officer (uncredited)
Storyline
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.
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