Secret Lives (film)

1937 British film
  • 27 September 1937 (1937-09-27)
Running time
79 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Secret Lives is a 1937 British war drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Brigitte Horney, Neil Hamilton and Raymond Lovell. It was made at Ealing Studios by the independent Phoenix Films.[1] The screenplay concerns a young woman who is recruited into the French secret service.

The film is also known by the alternative title of I Married a Spy.

Plot

At the outbreak of the First World War a young German-born woman living in Paris is interned and then recruited into the French secret service for operations against Germany.

Cast

  • Brigitte Horney as Lena Schmidt
  • Neil Hamilton as Lt. Pierre de Montmalion
  • Raymond Lovell as German Secret Service Chief
  • Charles Carson as Henri
  • Ivor Barnard as Baldhead
  • Frederick Lloyd as French Secret Service Chief
  • Leslie Perrins as J 14
  • Gyles Isham as Franz Abel
  • Hay Petrie as Robert Pigeon
  • Ben Field as Karl Schmidt
  • Ralph Truman as Prison Guard

References

  1. ^ Wood p.92

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
  • Secret Lives at IMDb
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