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British Agent

  • Director: Michael Curtiz
  • AMG Rating: starstarstarstar
  • Genre: War
  • Movie Type: War Spy Film, Romantic Drama
  • Themes: Dangerous Attraction, Opposites Attract
  • Main Cast: Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan, Phillip Reed, Irving Pichel
  • Release Year: 1934
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 75 minutes

Plot

British Agent starred the Hungarian/British actor Leslie Howard in the title role, was directed by full-fledged Hungarian Michael Curtiz, and costarred American leading lady Kay Francis as a Russian spy. Based on the memoirs of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who had been the unofficial British emissary to the Russian Revolutionary government in 1917, British Agent spends more time on its romantic subplot than in recreating the birth of Bolshevism. Leslie Howard's purpose in this film is to dissuade the Bolsheviks from signing a separate treaty with the World War I German regime. It is obvious to modern-day viewers that Howard is merely looking after Britain's interests and has no concern for the Russians; this was par for the course in a 1930s film, but does not play well with less jingoistic audiences of the 1990s. The most interesting aspect of British Agent is the performance of saturnine Irving Pichel as a young Josef Stalin. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Walter Byron - Stanley; J. Carrol Naish - Commissioner for War; Ivan Simpson - Evans; Halliwell Hobbes - Sir Walter Carrister; Cesar Romero - Tito Del Val; Alphonse Ethier - Devigny; Tenen Holtz - Lenin; George C. Pearce - Lloyd George; Gregory Gaye - Kolinoff; Paul Porcasi - Romano; Addison Richards - Zvododu; Walter Armitage; Arthur Ayleswofth - Farmer; Thomas Braidon - Cabinet member; Mary Forbes - Lady Treheme; Winter Hall - Cabinet Member; Lew Harvey - Suspect; Olaf Hytten - Undersecretary; Frank Lackteen; Doris Lloyd - Lady Carrister; Frank Reicher - Mr. X; Marina Schubert - Maria; Fred Walton - Cabinet member; Robert Wilbur

Credit

Anton Grot - Art Director, Michael Curtiz - Director, Tom Richards - Editor, Leo F. Forbstein - Composer (Music Score), Leo F. Forbstein - Musical Direction/Supervision, Ernest Haller - Cinematographer, Laird Doyle - Screenwriter, R.H.Bruce Lockhart - Book Author

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British Agent
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Written by Laird Doyle
R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Starring Leslie Howard
Kay Francis
William Gargan
Cesar Romero
Distributed by Warner Brothers
Release date(s) 15 September 1934
Running time 80 min
Country  United Kingdom
 United States
Language English

British Agent is a 1934 Espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan and Cesar Romero.[1] It is based on Memoirs of a British Agent the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart who had spent a number of years working for the British Secret Service. The film was produced by Warner Brothers.

The same book was partly used as an inspiration for the television series Reilly, Ace of Spies which also portrays the adventures of Lockhart and Sidney Reilly during their years in Moscow around the time of the Russian Revolution.

References

  1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024915/

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