Secret Agent (1936 film)

Secret Agent
Secret Agent
	US theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay by	Charles Bennett; Alma Reville; Ian Hay; Jesse Lasky Jr.
Based on	W. Somerset Maugham (story); Campbell Dixon (play)
Produced by	Michael Balcon; Ivor Montagu
Starring	Madeleine Carroll; Peter Lorre; John Gielgud; Robert Young
Cinematography	Bernard Knowles
Edited by	Charles Frend
Music by	John Greenwood; Louis Levy (director)
Production; company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	British International Pictures
Release date	11 May 1936;
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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".