Secret Agent

Pros: Gielgud, Carroll, Lorre and Young, the Hitchcock elements!

Cons: Poorly produced DVD, cheap edition-no frills

The Bottom Line: This is an outstanding Hitchcock thriller that you need to see more than once. First rate entertainment!

Review: This thriller made in 1936 is one of the Hitch at home (before Hollywood) films that has got to get your attention , with all the right elements to make it worthy of a Criterion edition. Unfortunately Criterion doesn’t see it that way, and...

Pros: From a Somerset Maugham novel, Suspense

Cons: Image a little soft from age

The Bottom Line: Secret Agent set the tone for the later British spy dramas of Ian Fleming's James Bond.

Review: Secret Agent (1936) Alfred Hitchcock made his name in British cinema for a couple of decades before, on the strength of his work in both silents and talkies, he was imported to America by David O. Selznick to work in Hollywood films. Secret ...

Pros: Good performance by Peter Lorre

Cons: Non-existent story line and plot

Review: "Secret Agent" is a World War I spy movie by Alfred Hitchcock.

The spy movie genre was pretty immature when this was written and it shows. To put it one way this film is quite naive about the entire spy business and gives a quaint...