Next Screening:
18th February 2008
18th February 2008
The Park Hotel, Diss
Film Starts 8pm
Members £3 Non-Members £4 Students £2 (under 21)
Cast: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll
Hitchcock at the height of his pre-Hollywood powers. In between The Thirty-nine Steps and The Lady Vanishes, the master brings us John Gielgud as a novelist persuaded into espionage; Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll are his assistants. Their job: to eliminate a German spy, but mistaken identity complicates things and raises moral issues.
Film Starts 8pm
Members £3 Non-Members £4 Students £2 (under 21)
SECRET AGENT (PG)
Origin: UK
Year: 1936
Running Time: 86 mins
Cast: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll
Hitchcock at the height of his pre-Hollywood powers. In between The Thirty-nine Steps and The Lady Vanishes, the master brings us John Gielgud as a novelist persuaded into espionage; Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll are his assistants. Their job: to eliminate a German spy, but mistaken identity complicates things and raises moral issues.
Startling set pieces and quirky characterisation make this one of Hitchcock’s most creative early movies.
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