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Secret Agent is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll and Robert Young 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director and producer, a master of the suspense thriller genre. ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... John Gielgud as photographed in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur John Gielgud OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an English theatre and film actor, regarded by many as one of the greatest British actors in history. ... Peter Lorre, 1946, by Yousuf Karsh Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was an actor especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries. ... Madeleine Carroll (February 26, 1906 - October 2, 1987) was a British actress, who was popular in the 1930s and 1940s. ... Robert Young (February 22, 1907 - July 21, 1998) was a popular American actor, who was the son of an Irish immigrant father and an American-born mother. ...


Gielgud plays a British officer, who had been a famed writer before the war (World War I), whose death is faked before being sent by the head of British intelligence, "R", to Switzerland on a secret mission. Carroll plays a woman agent who pretends to be his wife. They meet Lorre, who is their contact in Switzerland. The plot involves, among other common Hitchcock themes, mistaken identity and murder. Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total of dead: 8 million Military dead: 4 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total dead: 7 million The First... Mistaken Identity may refer to albums: Mistaken Identity (Kim Carnes album) Mistaken Identity (Delta Goodrem album) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...


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