Overview

During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.

Cast

Madeleine Carroll

Elsa Carrington

John Gielgud

Richard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie

Peter Lorre

The General

Robert Young

Robert Marvin

Percy Marmont

Caypor

N/A

Florence Kahn

Mrs. Caypor

Charles Carson

"R"

Lilli Palmer

Lilli

N/A

Denys Blakelock

Man (uncredited)

Sebastian Cabot

Man (uncredited)

Tom Helmore

Colonel Anderson (uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos

Manager (uncredited)