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
Gielgud plays a British officer in World War I who is sent to Switzerland on a secret mission. Carroll plays a woman who pretends to be his wife. They meet Lorre who is their contact in Switzerland.
The British spy series Danger Man was shown in the United States under the title Secret Agent.
