
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.
Cast

Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington

John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

Peter Lorre
The General

Robert Young
Robert Marvin

Percy Marmont
Caypor
Florence Kahn
Mrs. Caypor

Charles Carson
"R"

Lilli Palmer
Lilli
Denys Blakelock
Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot
Man (uncredited)

Tom Helmore
Colonel Anderson (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos
Manager (uncredited)

Howard Marion-Crawford
Karl (uncredited)

Rène Ray
Maid (uncredited)

Michael Redgrave
Army Officer (uncredited)

Michael Rennie
Army Captain (uncredited)
Michel Saint-Denis
Coachman (uncredited)
Crew

Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Jesse Lasky Jr.
Writer
Ian Hay
Writer

Charles Bennett
Screenplay

W. Somerset Maugham
Novel

Charles Frend
Editor
Bernard Knowles
Director of Photography
Pen Tennyson
Assistant Director

Michael Balcon
Producer
Ivor Montagu
Producer
Stephen Dade
Camera Operator
Gerry Massy-Collier
Assistant Camera
Reg Johnson
Assistant Camera
Joe Strassner
Costume Design
Phillip Dorté
Sound Recordist
Philip Dorté
Sound Recordist
Louis Levy
Music Director
Hubert Bath
Music
John Greenwood
Music
Albert Jullion
Set Dresser, Set Dressing Artist
Campbell Dixon
Theatre Play
Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
Art Direction



















