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- BFI identifier44286
- Date1936 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisStory of a successful novelist who undertakes an espionage commission to Switzerland during the First World War. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirected by: Alfred Hitchcock
Presents: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Producer: Michael Balcon [uncredited]
view all - CastMadeleine Carroll (Elsa Carrington)
Peter Lorre (The General)
John Gielgud (Richard Ashenden/Captain Edgar Brodie)
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Title
Secret Agent (Original)
Ashenden (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/02C9-84C5-009B-2FFD-6478-PCategory
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view all - Scripts / DocumentsDocument: report - Based on the book by Somerset Maughan Play by Campbell Dixon - BBFC-1-4-433
Document: report - Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham - BBFC-1-4-478
Script - Original story: Taken from the play by Campbell Dixon, based on the novel 'Ashenden' by Somerset Maugham - SCR-15785
Script - Original story: Taken from the play by Campbell Dixon, based on the novel 'Ashenden' by Somerset Maugham - SCR-15786
For example of programme see CINEMA EPHEMERA: LONDON List (Majestic, Wembley) and for example of publicity see PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY MATERIAL List (Gaumont- British).
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- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Note: August / September 1999
BFI Southbank programme notes September/October 2014
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Work - 44286 - 1936 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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