 | MOVIE #1,251 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.24.23 EVERY OTHER FRIDAY I’M REVIEWING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. THIS IS TGI-HITCHOCK! After back-to-back strong efforts, we’ve hit a middling, minor entry in Hitchcock’s filmography. Secret Agent is notable for having a strong comedic Peter Lorre performance, but is otherwise needlessly convoluted and kinda boring. Also of note is a long (close to seven minutes), mostly wordless stretch of storytelling, that clearly felt like a throwback/homage to his silent film days. It's quite effective actually… |
Other than that — and Peter Lorre’s excellent perm — I don’t have much to say.
CHRONOLOGICALLY
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Secret Agent is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the play by Campbell Dixon, which in turn is loosely based on two stories in the 1927 collection Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. The film stars Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, and Robert Young. It also features uncredited appearances by Michael Redgrave, future star of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), Michel Saint-Denis as the Coachman, and Michael Rennie in his film debut. Typical Hitchcockian themes used in Secret Agent include mistaken identity, trains and a "Hitchcock Blonde". It was released on June 15, 1936.
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