Carroll is already getting admiring comments from another guest, Robert Young, who flirts shamelessly with Carroll despite the presence of 'husband' Gielguid. Upon arriving to his surprise Guilgud is told his wife is already present - this is Madeleine Carroll. John Gielgud is despatched to Switzerland with assistant Peter Lorre to identify and locate an enemy spy, who Gielgud's predecessor believes was located in The Hotel Excelsior. Tom KeoghĪ 1936 offering from Alfred Hitchcock set in the First World War and based upon two W.Somerset Maugham Ashenden stories and upon the theatrical version by Campbell Dixon. Dense with interwoven ideas about false names and real identities, about appearances as lies and the brutality of the hidden, and about the complicity of those who watch the anarchy that others do, Secret Agent declared that Alfred Hitchcock was well along the road to mastery as a filmmaker and, more importantly, knew what it was he wanted to say for the rest of his career. En route, the counterfeit couple keeps company with an affable American (Robert Young), who turns out to be more than he seems after the wrong man is murdered by Gielgud and Lorre. Reinvented with a new identity and outfitted with a wife (Madeleine Carroll), Gielgud's character is sent on assignment with a cold-blooded accomplice (Peter Lorre) to assassinate a German agent.
One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest pre-Hollywood films, the 1936 Secret Agent stars a young John Gielgud as a British spy whose death is faked by his intelligence superiors.
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Accompanied by beautiful Elsa Carrington (Madeline Carroll), posing as his wife and the General (Peter Lorre), an insane professional killer, Brodie/Ashenden becomes embroiled in murder, intrigue and a pursuit through the Swiss Alps. Giving him a new identity as Richard Ashenden, they persuade him to undertake an espionage commission in Switzerland. Novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gieldgud) has his death faked by British Intelligence. Hitchcock filmed Somerset Maughams WWI spy story Ashenden with his typical mix of ironic humour and suspenseful set pieces.
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