Secret Agent

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Starla C Dec 31, 2025 It seemed to drag in spots...otherwise it was entertaining most of the time See more Jennifer G Dec 22, 2025 The movie has a slow pace which I enjoyed. I was immersed in the story throughout. Filmed like a 70s cop movie, the story was beautifully acted by an amazing cast. See more Horror fan 4 @Horrorfan4life Jan 9, 2026 A really good spy thriller. I never would've suspected it to be....... Well it was great performances and the ending that made this movie. The general was my favorite character. Tim Treakle See more Steve D @RT35616104 Jan 7, 2024 Nothing special despite the talent. See more Dick C @Joshua19930826 Jan 29, 2023 All my credits go to my favourite director, Alfred Hitchcock... See more Jun 12, 2022 This film's lack of focus and clumsiness is revealed in the very first scene, at what is supposed to be Ashenden's funeral. A one-armed vet politely receives the visitors, then, once alone, he VERY awkwardly (yes, he's one-armed, but still!) pulls the coffin onto the floor to reveal that it is empty. But if he knew it was empty, then why pull it down? Does he have a kinky thing about upending closed coffins to see what's inside? This scene lacks any of Hitchcock's stylish subtlety, and looks, along with rest of the film, cursory and rushed, like it was being cranked out quickly to satisfy the studio's wish to cash in on the success of 39 Steps and The Man Who Knew Too Much. The best actors from both of those hits were brought into this project, except Robert Donat cancelled due to health problems, and John Gielgud was his last-minute--and seriously inappropriate--replacement. The sparkle that Donat would have provided is totally absent in Shakespearean actor Gielgud, who is playing a sober stage Hamlet in the midst of scene-stealing movie actors. And Gielgud is tepidly unconvincing in his love scenes with sexy Madeleine Carroll--does this man ever get excited about anything? We are made to feel very badly about the wrong, decent, man getting killed, but then Lorre cancels our viewers' guilt by laughing his head off at the irony, and the film soon returns to the fun of finding and exterminating the real bad boy. Odd stuff. The 'clue' that leads the duo of assassins to their man is snatched out of thin air--Lorre randomly seduces a woman whose fiance 'just happens' to be the local contact communicating with the evil agent they're after. Really? Another sign that this was a rush job for quick profits and Hitchcock just didn't give a damn. Then there's the scene where Lorre inexplicably hands their dying murderous enemy his gun(!) and gets shot dead with it, apparently with the purpose of giving The General a chance to say his final goodbye to the audience. After all, Lorre has once again stolen Hitch's film, and deserves a proper sendoff. See more Read all reviews

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