British Gaumont
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Mill Creek)
A British officer is inducted into spy duty at the end of WWI. He is sent to Germany along with assassin Peter Lorre where they are to track down and kill a spy. Upon arrival, he meets his "wife" Madeleine Carroll, another spy who joined up for the thrill of it. She is being aggressively pursued by American playboy Robert Young. They follow a clue to a mountain climber and kill him, but it turns out he was not the spy. Carroll wants to give up and leaves with Young, but when he turns out to be the real spy her life is threatened. It all ends in a typical early Hitchcock train derailment and crash. Fun for awhile, but too similar to other early Hitchcock films to really stand out.
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