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- 1936
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 75 mins
- PG
Summary
An undercover detective poses as a grocer to get closer to a suspected terrorist thought to be plotting to blow up London. Alfred Hitchcock's thriller based on Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, starring Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney, John Loder, Desmond Tester and Joyce Barbour
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Tom Hutchinson
There was no such thing as accepted behaviour for suspense master Alfred Hitchcock, and his nonconformity was never more apparent than in the unnerving scene from this movie in which a small boy (played by Desmond Tester) carries a time-bomb aboard a bus. Movie-goers suddenly had to confront the unexpected (a Hitchcock trademark) in this adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent, in which terrorist Oscar Homolka uses his marriage to submissive Sylvia Sidney and his business as a cinema owner as front for his subversive activities. Hitchcock later described the film as "playful", but, as usual for him, it is, in fact, a deadly game with cruel conclusions.
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rolenameSylvia VerlocSylvia SidneyCarl VerlocOscar HomolkaSergeant Ted SpencerJohn LoderSteveDesmond TesterReneeJoyce BarbourSuperintendent TalbotMatthew BoultonHollingsheadS J WarmingtonA S ChatmanWilliam Dewhurst
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rolenameDirectorAlfred Hitchcock
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Released on
1937-02-08
Languages
English
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Black and white
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