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Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer!
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Madeleine CarrollElsa Carrington
John GielgudRichard Ashenden / Edgar Brodie
Peter LorreThe General
Robert YoungRobert Marvin
Percy MarmontCaypor
Charles Carson
Lilli PalmerLilli
Sebastian CabotMan (uncredited)
Tom HelmoreColonel Anderson (uncredited)
Andreas MalandrinosManager (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Editor
- Charles Frend
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Producer
- Ivor Montagu
- Producer
- Michael Balcon
- Director of Photography
- Bernard Knowles
- Screenplay
- Charles Bennett
- Writer
- Ian Hay
- Writer
- Jesse Lasky Jr.