Secret Agent (1936)
"Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!"
ThumbScore
👍 75%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 87%
(RT: 87%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Madeleine Carroll as Elsa Carrington
Robert Young as Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont as Caypor
Florence Kahn as Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson as "R"
Lilli Palmer as Lilli
Is Secret Agent good?
Most people think so. 75% audience score, estimated from 177 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 87%.
Overview
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences. Wikipedia ↗
