Secret Agent | Full Movie | Alfred Hitchcock | Thriller 1936 | English Subtitle

Secret Agent is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance; he would play the male lead in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). The work was also Michael Rennie's film debut (though an uncredited one).
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[@nancycatania7763]

Brilliant movie. Nothing beats an Alfred Hitchcock flick!

[@witchingours4432]

So many comments on old movies say that 'they don't make them like they used to'. I am not always in agreement, but the rapid fire dialogue and understated humor here does not have a current equal.

[@philipkuttner7945]

Funny, some people think this a terrible film; I think it's one of his best English movies. Starts with witty dialogue, then a murder you see only in a character's reaction, progression of crowds, machinery drowning out the dialogue, climaxing with a train wreck. Brilliant, unique director.

[@jeremybear573]

AGREED 👍🏼 . Wonderful Film 🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬

[@booshkoosh7994]

I love it!

[@keahilumho8914]

I agree 100%. This Lady Vanishes, 39 Steps and Jamaica Inn as well. Only Pyscho and Rope come close once he crossed the pond. While NbyNW and Rear Window are great I feel they’re hyped by Hellywoods ego and greed….Foreign Correspondent and Shadow of a Doubt outclass em with dialogue and wit.

[@steveblundell7766]

@@keahilumho8914 It's 39 steps not 29, hope you made it to the end

[@keahilumho8914]

@@steveblundell7766 TY my typo got me again. To honor you I will watch this again tonight and also Jamaica Inn.

[@Arpi10ta]

Thank you so much for uploading this

[@haybee1246]

Peter Lorre steals the show! Love these old movies!

[@naguerea]

BUT , WhO IS THE ONE ARMED RETAINER WITH THE EMPTY COFFIN?

[@katyalacrua6793]

Absolutely 😂😅 Poor Sir Gielgud.

[@winonamassingill7895]

Oooh there’s that incredible Peter Lorre. I didn’t recognize him at first because I hadn’t heard him speak quite enough. However, now that I have I know who he is by that soft creepy voice. Brrrr. It sends shivers up and down my spine. What a great little actor. 👏👏👏👏👌👌👌

[@jaysoper3974]

an early classic from the dean of suspense, Hitchcock can't be beat even after all these years! great jibe near the beginning, too; Elsa coyly: "how do i look?" Ahenden icily: "a bit fond of yourself, aren't you" pure Hitchcock!

[@isammolina4842]

Que actor Peter Lorre...

[@kleideja]

uma vez Hitchock, sempre Hitchock lindu

[@metalboostable]

The music is Talerschwingen, a Swiss tradition.

[@Sunflower-nx5en]

Always enjoy Hitchcock's directing!!....

[@edwinjimenez3802]

This kind of movie brings back memories WOR CHANNEL 9 NEW YORK Back in the early 1960s late at night they featured this style of movie old british movies

[@jimgag2]

Edwin Jimenez G. I remember them along with Million Dollar Movie.

[@aspenrebel]

There's a great line. "Do you love your country" ..... "Well I just died for it". @ 4:30 ish.

[@steveweinstein3222]

The 2nd half isn't so great, but the build up with the kind German wife, the dog with the Sixth Sense, the wrong man ... brilliant.

[@BenjWarrant]

I agree!

[@naguerea]

What a glorious film

[@winonamassingill7895]

Since it’s an Alfred Hitchcock movie 🍿 I’m looking forward to seeing how it will end.

[@apricotcookie4850]

Excellent early Hitchcock. Thanks for posting.

[@naguerea]

Wo is the man with one arm?

[@LakeConstan]

At 13:35: Connubial becomes "conuvial" and uxorious becomes "luxurious". There was a time when an audience might be expected to know words like these. Now, the person preparing subtitles can't even transcribe them correctly.

[@winonamassingill7895]

The poor little guy know his beloved master is in trouble. 😱😱😱😳😳🥺🥺🥺

[@katyalacrua6793]

Very good looking young Sir John Gielgud, I'm in love 😊

[@danielstump3204]

In her day, Madeleine Carroll was about the prettiest actress in movies, IMHO.

[@patricias5122]

Well, I think she was a little more than a pretty face, she was extremely talented. A great actress.

[@ckom0007]

By a lot!

[@TimmysFavs]

💯%✔👍

[@srinagardiary-lifeinkashmi5731]

marvellous

[@natalya9821]

Thank you!

[@jenniferpillot9003]

Yeah Dr.Welby :)!!!

[@paddymeboy]

It has the same jolly-hockey tone as The Lady Vanishes, and in this case I'm not sure it works. The book is sardonic but not jaunty - after all it's hardly a laughing matter! Hitchcock himself was conscious of the incongruity between the story and his style - he didn't like to have the hero do anything with which the audience might not sympathise. Peter Lorre's turn can only be described as extraordinary. And it's interesting that they made the guy a front-line soldier, something that would never happen in real life. I suppose I shouldn't complain about the subtitles, but I think they might need to turn their hearing aid up! Or maybe it's that they don't understand prewar British accents/ idiom. Either way there are a lot of silly errors, eg 'I'm not insulting you' becomes 'I know some, do you?'; 'backsheesh' - 'buck cheese'! But it's worth watching if only for the evidence that John Gielgud was once a young man...fairly.

[@robbietheking69]

1:20:04 the most realistic train accident scene ever

[@fordlandau]

Lovely

[@victorireland8913]

Brilliant.

[@karenrogers7379]

I'm glad to see someone else appreciates this film! My ancestors were from Europe so when I watch these films, I feel drawn to know the countrypeople there........

[@martas9283]

I thought so too! Good story and great direction

[@winonamassingill7895]

@@karenrogers7379d

[@bill-2018]

I had thought another film with a great character played by Peter Lorre. I soon realised how wrong I was. Then putting his gun down at the end.

[@usedscar]

Soo wish Leslie Howard had taken the part. The first time "husband and wife" meet and she immediately falls in love would have made sense! Such a good movie. To see Lorre and Howard together w Hitch at the helm . . ..

[@LakeConstan]

But what a treat to see Gielgud in his early 30s (he looks older). He was already a big stage star for his Shakespearean performances but had not yet developed the grave, majestic and magisterial persona of his later years. His delivery of his lines is often quite rushed -- unlike the sonorous manner he later developed.

[@frankfeldman6657]

John Gielgud gives a perhaps intentionally utterly uninspired performance, it's quite shocking. Peter Lorre is marvelous, hamming it up to Chico Marx levels. And he could barely speak the language, from what I've heard.

[@gerardgeay7420]

During the german lesson, the first day is Sonntag (sunday) not Samstag (saturday). The subtitles are wrong.

[@kleideja]

poxa vida poderia ser legendado em português pelo menos... snifff

[@wdtaut5650]

So, where is Hitchcock? Other sources say he is getting off the boat just ahead of Gielgud at 7:59. I think not. Look at 41:38. The man with his back to the camera, wearing the lab coat, is Hitchcock. When he speaks, "Now, you can see them easily", he certainly sounds like Hitchcock. I don't recall Hitchcock speaking in any other film, but his voice is familiar from his TV series.

[@winonamassingill7895]

Yes, of course there’s the every lasting cigarette. However, now it may not be the cigarette 🚬 but it’s the liquor 🥃. Whiskey 🥃 or Vodka or Bourbon 🥃. Sometimes both.

[@winonamassingill7895]

Oops. Quite a surprise eh Mr Robert Young? 😅😅😅

[@lgeubs]

Hee, hee. The subtitles render the word "uxorious" as "luxurious."

[@ckom0007]

You know what they say...you’ve got to lux your uxor!

[@BenjWarrant]

They were pretty dodgy all the way through!

[@philipkuttner7945]

"Not only ladies." !

[@annprince5298]

By the way this film was made in 1936, somthey predicted the battle El Alamein, strange that , it was at the end !!

[@michaeldoland2306]

The subtitles are really below standard; really bad. You can still clean it up if you have the budget.

[@RockyDoggaPitchaShow]

Peter Lorre should have been shot (not with a camera) at the beginning of the film.

[@emanuela9653]

I am a huge fan of Hitchcock's films, but I admit I found this one a bit boring. Also, the identity of the German spy was already clear halfway the film. The scene of the derailing train was really accurate for the time.

[@naguerea]

Who is the actor with one arm at the beginning,?

[@moniquemirey6927]

Très bon film mais dommage qu' il ne soit pas en version française

[@emascatzel316]

C’est toujours mieux de regarder l’original ;)

[@aspenrebel]

Non

[@winonamassingill7895]

Now I’ve got 2 people who annoy me. That silly little girl and now that annoying little creepy Peter Lorre. Apparently he didn’t annoy his beautiful 😻 wife to much because they were married all of their lives. They both died within a month or 2 of each other and they only had one ☝️ girl.

[@awos6559]

Interesting. I am trying to understand the setting for this movie in terms of period. One assumes it’s set in and about ww1? But interestingly in 1936 ww2 is also right around the corner three years later from 1939. So it almost looks like a ww2 classic too.

[@annedwyer797]

The first scene 1:06 opens with the title card "1916"!!

[@smartingamerica]

Nevertheless Hitchcock is fairly explicit in forecasting the next world conflict. By 1936 many who paid attention to the growing belligerency of certain German nationals noticed the writing was pretty much on the wall for it.

[@j.criquette3334]

Can someone please explain what happens at the end. I don't understand why the General put the gun down right in front of Marvin. Did he expect him to kill himself? Or did he put it there forgetfully?

[@gardengnome3249]

If you get an answer please let me know. Worst Hitchcock movie I have seen. It took me two attempts to see it through and now I wish I hadn't.

[@Catquick1957]

I think he thought he was done in. He was crying for water. Arrogantly thought he wouldn't go out with a bang

[@j.criquette3334]

@@gardengnome3249 Yes I got an answer. You can see. Don't be so hard on Hitchcock! I won't say this was an early attempt because he had already made around ten films before. But sounds like you need more to suspend your belief. I like films made in the thirties. You can see how directors (at least the good ones) were stretching their wings and trying all sorts of new techniques and ideas.

[@captainvin9009]

At 13:01 notice a roll of toilet paper on the wall, then at 14:37 the same roll resting on top of the toilet. Usually toilets and toilet paper were props never visual.

[@captainvin9009]

@@j.criquette3334 At 13:01 a roll of toilet paper on the wall appears, at 14:37 the paper sits on the toilet tank.Toilet paper and toilets in that era never appeared on screen (a rare occurrence)

[@cskarbek1]

Hitchcock, really -- they go thru a train wreck and the general still has a lit cigarette in his mouth? give me a break! hehehe

[@BenjWarrant]

Well, the whole thing about the train wreck was rather improbable.

[@GrumblingGrognard]

A early voice-over psycho moment @1:14:50 ... and I am not 100% sure what-the-hell she is saying/thinking!?! lol!

[@aspenrebel]

If this is suppose to be Spring/Summer 1916, aren't the clothes all wrong? The clothes they are wearing seem more like mid 1930's. Yet, of course, I'm no expert on such matters.

[@thenorthernspinozist397]

YES, I think you are correct. They clothes really are from the 30's.

[@peterkingsley8736]

I find Gielgud's cold fish English husband act peculiar, unappealing and inhuman. He was obviously directed to act so. Why? Good clear print though

[@jaysoper3974]

fits the part perfectly, a spy not a socialite

[@petersolomon5227]

Leaving aside his many roles in theatre, in terms of a screen presence, it could be said that over a long career John Gielgud was more often emotionally cold than warm. (See Gielgud’s interpretation of the character Edward Ryder in ITV’s mini series, “Brideshead Revisited”.) Like Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, Gielgud played many a regal Shakespearean character on stage. However, when young, Gielgud was never quite suited to play the handsome matinee idol, as Olivier was. No doubt some Americans would have seen Gielgud’s on-screen grandiosity as odious superiority. Nonetheless, he was no less camp or capricious than Noel Coward, who masterfully avoided the downside of Gielgud’s aristocratic persona (which is to say a certain general public ambivalence) by becoming a sentimental British nationalist. In times gone by, Britain’s class system operated differently to America’s class system. In the UK cultural tradition mattered to some; whereas in the US being part of the establishment generally equated with being born to, or acquiring wealth. I would argue that Gielgud was cast as Dudley Moore’s valet Hobson in Steve Gordon’s film, “Arthur” (1981), partly because Hollywood has always sought to differentiate America’s popular culture from the British class system. That Dudley Moore’s character had more in common with American, rather than British cultural excess may have been lost on some viewers.

[@roelienpostma2367]

R for rodondendenron.....

[@mikedaniels3009]

Hey, Mr Hitch, you didn't research your German: 9:53: Was ist geschehen? Gar nichtS, gar nichtS... S is missing.

[@winonamassingill7895]

I’m very much afraid 😱 that I don’t see anything about that whole sorry mess that there’s anything laugh about. The sorry 😣 jerk of a general only was amused and laughed when he found out that he had murdered an innocent man I know how sad his poor faithful little friend was heartbroken 💔 and I suspect that his sweet little wife may have killed her self. 😱😱😱🥺🥺🥺

[@woodywestlake]

I agree with another poster on here who has always found Robert Young annoying.

[@charleswalker1185]

He is scarily endowed...

[@usedscar]

He was the best choice, aside from Lorie in this film. Probably due to that underlying annoying quality. He made a lousy compassionate actor. I think he has good comic timing here and his reveal as a German spy is genuinely creepy.

[@smartingamerica]

I will wager that more than one poster here who finds Robert Young 'annoying' is confusing him with Robert Montgomery - a common mistake, considering how much they resemble each other.

[@usedscar]

@@smartingamerica Nope. I always cringed when I was a kid and Marcus Welby came on.

[@smartingamerica]

Confidentially, so did I. Not so much because of Young as much as, you know, because it was a 'TV Show about Hospital/Doctors/Patients with Lots and Lots of Drama'. Anybody in the title role of that (dutifully posing with a reassuring doctorly smile) would have developed the negative association.

[@jamesmason8052]

Don’t read this Spoiler alert. So at the very end she doesn’t want to do the job. WTF

[@richarddowney1972]

I think Lorre was OK. Robert Young really annoying to say the least.But I always found him annoying. Ashenden is actually a good read.

[@richardprior5139]

never liked Peter Lorre, always liked Robert Young and Madeleine Carroll

[@Satters]

had to stop ½way through, the loud high pitch sounds drowned out the dialogue

[@philipkuttner7945]

That was on purpose--a brilliant technique to ratchet up the tension.

[@katiebiega8070]

Good movie but could have been gooder. Bad grammar on purpose! 😮

[@djpricekut517]

7 centuries ago, one day, after the multitudes had said, “Israel, Israel,” a lady said, “I know, but Israel isn’t nice to us anymore, so we want to call the place Palestine!”

[@djpricekut517]

It was your motha..

[@djpricekut517]

Then they said they wanted to be like the Bible, again, and became Israel again, and if you were a citizen of Palestine, you would still be a citizen of Israel (someone born there, who wasn’t a fake or sell-out, etc.), of which, they have none!

[@alanberry1318]

I wish I had been paid to watch that. It would have made the more bearable.

[@aspenrebel]

OK, here's a question for you. How come back in the old days, all these guys looks so old, and like a bunch of stiffs? I'm probably older than half these men in the opening scene, and I don't look anywhere near as old as they all do.

[@deezynar]

I have also mentioned that in comments on old movies. I think it's any, and sometimes, all of the following things. #1, Actors are often older than the characters they play. #2, The clothing, and some of their behaviors, was much more formal, and we associate them with greater age. #3, They all smoked and drank booze. Both habits can make a person look older than they would otherwise. #4, Black and white film makes people look older.

[@aspenrebel]

@@deezynar ok, could be.

[@karenrogers7379]

Sad. What could be a classic Brittish film and they have to incorporate Hollywood actors/speach into it? Disgusting!

[@quentinlickliter4697]

Wow what a mess they have here of an initial wonderful story "The Hairless Mexican" By Maugham. awfull casting with Lorre . Worst Hitchcock I've seen. Must learn somewhere I guess.

[@johnpharms8943]

This has to be one of Peter Lorre's worst films ever!!! Robert Young's character as an obsessive sexual flirt is annoying and irritating!! I know it's just a movie BUT these type of characters are just plain offensive , sexual degrading and rude. I take leave of this horrible film and shall give it a negative response.

[@garrywagner7717]

John Pharms get over it a era film.

[@miguelfernandes5628]

Got into the plot but had to stop at 15:48, the latino stereotype and of the cheesiest kind? Pass, I'm lactose intolerant.

[@jaysoper3974]

oh please, check the political correctness at the door; great film, great role for Lorre!

[@alysencameron361]

Lorre was much better by "Arsnic and Old Lace".

[@danielstump3204]

In her day, Madeleine Carroll was about the prettiest actress in movies, IMHO.

[@bengalgangster]

I agree what a beautiful girl

[@mckavitt13]

Daniel Stump And John Gielgud about the handsomest actor. Well-matched!

[@dennisroyhall121]

Not a light on Laraine Day…Even in 39 Steps MC looks too old for her part…and she lacks a natural warmth or charm…´ OTOH, one might feel sorry for her having to consort with a group of good-looking men maybe, but homosexuals all of ‘em, ye gods what a laugh on the part of Somerset Maugham, yet another one! As for some of the lines given to Robert Young like - saying to MC - « …or can I eat your Adam’s Apple… » - puerile!. As for Peter Lorre, a good actor in later films but here his character part is superfluous and one the story would have been better without…to wit that scene in the church and the strangled organist with Lorre flashing some kind of machete blade and wanting to steal a handful of candles…terrible! And with lines like « …my beautiful legs »! Were these supposed to get laughs from the audience? One final tasteless attitude is that of Robert Young’s character pretending even boasting of his linguistics yet appallingly useless nor are the others any better altho’ passive but passive superior in attitude as the three Gielgud, Redgrave, Young look on looking stupidly bemused at the linguistic exchanges of the country they’re in a good example of the worst kind of English attitude to foreign languages… And those pseudo love scenes between Gielgud and Carrol, God you have to feel sorry for her to have that twat kissing her, ugh!