Edna Best, Hugh Wakefield, Leslie Banks, Nova Pilbeam, Peter Lorre
An English couple on holiday in Switzerland find themselves embroiled in an international plot to assassinate a foreign dignitary when the husband overhears the secret and their daughter is kidnapped....( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 21, 2003
Stats: 320 reviews
a very short but very good early film from hitchcock. lorre is excellent as always and the film succeeds at every turn after a strange 15 minute opening sequence. solid thriller.
In the novel, THE SECRET AGENT, Joseph Conrad had dissected the world of anarchists, double agents and spies, and police in the East End of London of 1894, the year that an attempt to destroy the Greenwich Observatory occurred. Alfred Hitchcock used Conrad's novel for his film SA...( read more)
The remake (1956) with J. Stewart and D. Day is better. An interesting viewing for diehards of Hitch's.
I read good reviews about this original version of Hitchcock's story of a man who must rescue his child from kidnappers after he learns of their assasination plot, but it left me cold. Peter Lorre was pretty good as the villain, but the rest of the performances were extremely pos...( read more)
A good early Hitchcock but not his best. Some great and suspensful scenes and Lorre is a great villan. The sound effects on the film at times are horrible and this does effect the film.
I just can't bring myself to watch this one. I watched the newer 1956 version so I know the story and this one is just to old to handle.
"Public Enemy No. 1 of all the world..."
Thrilling Hitchcockian adventure where Banks & Best run into intrigue as their daughter is kidnapped, so that they will not reveal information that has come into their possesion. Sinister characters led by Lorre make sure they ...( read more)
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