UK,
1936, 86 min
Directed by:
Alfred HitchcockScreenplay:
Charles BennettComposer:
Hubert BathCast:
John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Percy Marmont, Lilli Palmer, Michael Redgrave, Tom Helmore, Michael Rennie, René Ray (more)Plots(1)
Set during WWI, British novelist Edgar Brodie finds out that he has been claimed dead by the government only to then be asked to assume another name and hunt down a German agent in Switzerland. (official distributor synopsis)
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