Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Jesse Lasky Jr., Ian Hay
Producer: Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
86 min
Rating: 6.1/10
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Madeleine Carroll
Elsa Carrington
John Gielgud
Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter Lorre
The General
Robert Young
Robert Marvin
Percy Marmont
Caypor
Movie Info
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Jesse Lasky Jr., Ian Hay
Producer: Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu
Production Companies: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Countries: United Kingdom
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John Gielgud charmingly portrays the novelist-cum-officer dragooned by the British spy service into travelling to Switzerland on the trail of a Nazi spy. He is assigned two assistants - a rather naive, but keen, Madeleine Carroll "Elsa" and a suitable sleazy, but lethal, Peter Lorre "as The General". Their first attempt to fulfil their mission goes awry somewhat, as they dispatch the wrong person. It is at this point their consciences start to kick in and they question the morals of their mission - particularly when they actually do discover the identity of the enemy secret agent. Hitchcock and Charles Bennett adapt the Somerset Maugham story with plenty of attention to the detail and the characterisation; the direction is taut and the suspense on the train towards the end keep this enthralling.