{"id":35432,"date":"2024-03-17T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35432"},"modified":"2024-03-17T17:52:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T21:52:36","slug":"secret-agent-1936-directed-by-alfred-hitchcock-starring-john-gielgud-madeline-carroll-robert-young-peter-lorre-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35432","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Secret Agent&#8221; (1936) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring John Gielgud, Madeline Carroll, Robert Young, &#038; Peter Lorre \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z031724zview_secretagent36.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Secret Agent <\/strong><\/em>(1936)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>\u00a0Alfred Hitchcock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Charles Bennett, Alma Reville, Ian Hay, Jesse Lasky Jr. <\/strong>based on the story by <strong>W. Somerset<\/strong> <strong>Maugham<\/strong> and the play by <strong>Campbell Dixon<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Gielgud, Madeline Carroll, Robert Young, Peter Lorre, Sebastian Cabot, Michael Redgrave, Michael Rennie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British Captain Edgar Brodie (Gielgud) is recruited for a secret mission to to identify and eliminate a German agent.\u00a0 Brodie is given a fake identity as Richard Ashenden.\u00a0 He is also given a &#8220;wife&#8221; named Elsa to assist with the mission.\u00a0 Ashenden and Elsa are teamed with a foreign agent (Lorre) called &#8220;The General&#8221; (also known as &#8220;the hairless Mexican &#8211; although he isn&#8217;t a general, hairless or a Mexican).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Ashenden and Elsa move forward with the mission, they will encounter double agents, secret messages, and lines that they are unwilling to cross that The General will without hesitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seeing John Gielgud and Robert Young looking so, uh, young is a hoot.\u00a0 Especially since I knew them from <em>Arthur<\/em> and <em>Marcus Welby, MD<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Cabot, Michael Redgrave and Michael Rennie appear in uncredited roles.<\/p>\n<p>Another Alfred Hitchcock winner.<\/p>\n<p>Be aware that the copyright lapsed and there are many bootleg and low quality versions on the market.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Secret Agent <\/strong><\/em>(1936) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z031724zview_secretagent36b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Agent (1936) Director: \u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay: Charles Bennett, Alma Reville, Ian Hay, Jesse Lasky Jr. based on the story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35441,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35432\/revisions\/35441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}