On Secret Service (Original title)Secret Agent (Alternative title)Spy 77 (Alternative title)
Date: 21 May 1934 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirector: Arthur Woods
Synopsis: Thriller set on the Austrian front in the 1914-18 war. An Austrian officer loves an Italian woman who is a spy.Synopsis: Prior to the First World War, Hauptmann von Hombergk, a colonel in the Austrian army who has been in a relationship with an Italian spy, Marcella Galdi, is framed as a spy when secret plans are planted in his apartment. Offered the chance of suicide, he declines and is demoted instead. On the outbreak of war, Austria's spies in Italy are all being captured through the work of an Italian spy in the Austrian High Command. Hombergk presents himself to the High Command and offers to go to Italy as a spy himself in order to discover the identity of the informant and to clear his name. Once in Italy, he encounters Galdi again, but she does not inform on him as she has fallen in love. Hombergk finally discovers the name of the spy, and, while stealing an airplane to travel back to Austria, Galdi is killed when she tries to join him. Arriving back in Austria, Hombergk unmasks the true spy and he is reinstated to his old command.
Genre: War
Subjects: Italian Front, World War I, Espionage
Releases
Date: 1934Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 89 mins Length: 8100 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 21 May 1934 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirector: Arthur Woods
Synopsis: Thriller set on the Austrian front in the 1914-18 war. An Austrian officer loves an Italian woman who is a spy.Synopsis: Prior to the First World War, Hauptmann von Hombergk, a colonel in the Austrian army who has been in a relationship with an Italian spy, Marcella Galdi, is framed as a spy when secret plans are planted in his apartment. Offered the chance of suicide, he declines and is demoted instead. On the outbreak of war, Austria's spies in Italy are all being captured through the work of an Italian spy in the Austrian High Command. Hombergk presents himself to the High Command and offers to go to Italy as a spy himself in order to discover the identity of the informant and to clear his name. Once in Italy, he encounters Galdi again, but she does not inform on him as she has fallen in love. Hombergk finally discovers the name of the spy, and, while stealing an airplane to travel back to Austria, Galdi is killed when she tries to join him. Arriving back in Austria, Hombergk unmasks the true spy and he is reinstated to his old command.
Genre: War
Subjects: Italian Front, World War I, Espionage
Releases
Date: 1934Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 89 mins Length: 8100 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(18)
Production Company: British International Pictures, Presents: Associated British Picture Corporation, [Script]: Georg C. Klaren, Herbert Juttke, Adaptation & Scenario: Arthur Woods, Dialogue: Frank Vosper, [Original novel]: Max W. Kimmich, Robert Baberske, Photography: Cyril Bristow, Photography: Jack Parker, Film Editor: E.B. Jarvis, Art Director: Duncan Sutherland, Dress Supervisor: Paula Newman, Musical Score: Kurt Schroeder, Dr. Becce, Recording: A.S. Ross, Studio: Elstree Studios
Cast
(9)
Greta Nissen (Marchesa Marcella Galdi), Carl Ludwig Diehl (Hauptmann (Captain) von Hombergk), Lester Matthews (Colonello Romanelli), Esmé Percy (Bleuntzli, a reporter), Cecil Ramage (Ermete Davila), Don Alvarado (Conte Valenti), Wallace Geoffrey (B.18.), C.M. Hallard (Oberst (Colonel) von Waldmuller), Austin Trevor (Hauptmann Larco, ADC to Waldmuller)