Secret Agent
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. World…
Secret Agent
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. World War 1. Novelist Edgar Brodie is shocked to discover that, according to the newspapers, he has died. This turns out to be a cover for a clandestine operation British Intelligence has for him. As Richard Ashenden, he is to go to Switzerland to track down and eliminate a German agent who is undermining British operations in the Middle East. When he gets to his Swiss hotel, he discovers that there's a Mrs Ashenden, and she's in his room. —grantss 1916. On leave from military service on the continent, famed British novelist Edgar Brodie, without any previous notification or warning, returns to England to discover in the news that he has been declared dead. The reason: the British Secret Service wants to recruit him for a special undercover assignment under the assumed name of Richard Ashenden. The assignment: locate an unknown German spy thought to be in Switzerland, one who is making plans to travel to the Middle East via Constantinople and aid the enemy forces in battle. "Ashenden" is to do whatever is required to prevent the spy from boarding any such train. He is given two assistants: a womanizing man nicknamed the General assigned to kill the spy, and a young woman (whom Ashenden does not discover until he checks into his hotel in Switzerland) named Elsa Carrington, who is to masquerade as his wife. Despite Elsa being "married", she is being wooed by the charming American tourist Robert Marvin, whose pursuit she and Ashenden both see as harmless fun. Not a trained agent herself, Elsa has embarked on this assignment to add a little excitement into her life, but things change when murder becomes a reality, which threatens them being able to carry out the assignment and which may jeopardize their own lives. —Huggo In 1916, the British Captain Edgar Brodie returns home and is assigned by a superior that faked his funeral to work as a spy in Switzerland. He receives the identity of Richard Ashenden and is introduced to the womanizer killer The General that will meet him in the Hotel Excelsior in Switzerland to assassin a German spy. On arrival, Ashenden is surprised to know that his wife, arranged by his superior, is waiting for him in his room. When he enters the room, the hotel guest Robert Marvin is flirting with his beautiful wife, Mrs. Elsa Ashenden. When Marvin leaves the room, he learns that Elsa accepted the job because of the money. Ashenden goes with the General to a church to meet the organist, who is their contact, to learn who the German agent is, but they find him dead with a button in his hand. They head to the casino to meet Elsa and accidentally they find that the button belongs to a man named Caypor. They start a conversation with him and convince Caypor to climb a mountain with them. They leave Elsa with his wife, Mrs. Caypor, and while on the top of the mountain, the General pushes off a cliff and kills Caypor. But on the next morning, they receive a telegram informing that Caypor was not the agent. Now they have to find the agent while Elsa decides to quit her job. They go to a chocolate factory and discover the identity of the German spy, but he is on the run. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and then Elsa Carrington who helps him in his duty. —Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>
Secret Agent
Crime,Drama,Mystery
Film Details
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. World War 1. Novelist Edgar Brodie is shocked to discover that, according to the newspapers, he has died.
This turns out to be a cover for a clandestine operation British Intelligence has for him. As Richard Ashenden, he is to go to Switzerland to track down and eliminate a German agent who is undermining British operations in the Middle East. When he gets to his Swiss hotel, he discovers that there's a Mrs Ashenden, and she's in his room.
—grantss 1916. On leave from military service on the continent, famed British novelist Edgar Brodie, without any previous notification or warning, returns to England to discover in the news that he has been declared dead. The reason: the British Secret Service wants to recruit him for a special undercover assignment under the assumed name of Richard Ashenden.
The assignment: locate an unknown German spy thought to be in Switzerland, one who is making plans to travel to the Middle East via Constantinople and aid the enemy forces in battle. "Ashenden" is to do whatever is required to prevent the spy from boarding any such train. He is given two assistants: a womanizing man nicknamed the General assigned to kill the spy, and a young woman (whom Ashenden does not discover until he checks into his hotel in Switzerland) named Elsa Carrington, who is to masquerade as his wife.
Despite Elsa being "married", she is being wooed by the charming American tourist Robert Marvin, whose pursuit she and Ashenden both see as harmless fun. Not a trained agent herself, Elsa has embarked on this assignment to add a little excitement into her life, but things change when murder becomes a reality, which threatens them being able to carry out the assignment and which may jeopardize their own lives. —Huggo In 1916, the British Captain Edgar Brodie returns home and is assigned by a superior that faked his funeral to work as a spy in Switzerland.
He receives the identity of Richard Ashenden and is introduced to the womanizer killer The General that will meet him in the Hotel Excelsior in Switzerland to assassin a German spy. On arrival, Ashenden is surprised to know that his wife, arranged by his superior, is waiting for him in his room. When he enters the room, the hotel guest Robert Marvin is flirting with his beautiful wife, Mrs.
Elsa Ashenden. When Marvin leaves the room, he learns that Elsa accepted the job because of the money. Ashenden goes with the General to a church to meet the organist, who is their contact, to learn who the German agent is, but they find him dead with a button in his hand.
They head to the casino to meet Elsa and accidentally they find that the button belongs to a man named Caypor. They start a conversation with him and convince Caypor to climb a mountain with them. They leave Elsa with his wife, Mrs.
Caypor, and while on the top of the mountain, the General pushes off a cliff and kills Caypor. But on the next morning, they receive a telegram informing that Caypor was not the agent. Now they have to find the agent while Elsa decides to quit her job.
They go to a chocolate factory and discover the identity of the German spy, but he is on the run. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent.
During the mission he meets a fake general first and then Elsa Carrington who helps him in his duty. —Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>.