# El agente secreto (1936)

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**Original title**: *Secret Agent*
**Runtime**: 86 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Mystery, Romance
**Directed by**: Alfred Hitchcock
**Written by**: Jesse Lasky Jr., Charles Bennett, Ian Hay
**Starring**: Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Robert Young, Percy Marmont, Florence Kahn

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## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Swiss Alps, winter. A typewriter clatters between trenches.

A dead man’s name re-issued. A wife borrowed, a pistol tucked in gloves.

Hitchcock’s talkies still wear silent shadows.

**Mood tags**: paranoid

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