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British Agent is an American romantic film drama first released in 1934,
directed by Michael Curtiz.
The film stars Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan, Phillip Reed and Irving Pichel.
It has also been released under the title: Brutal Agent.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
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Credits
- Director: Michael Curtiz
- Script: R.H. Bruce Lockhart, Laird Doyle, Roland Pertwee, Pierre Collings
- Photo: Ernest Haller
- Music: Bernhard Kaun, Heinz Roemheld
- Cast: Leslie Howard (Stephen ’Steve’ Locke), Kay Francis (Elena Moura), William Gargan (Bob Medill), Phillip Reed (Gaston LeFarge), Irving Pichel (Sergei Pavlov), Ivan F. Simpson (’Poohbah’ Evans), Halliwell Hobbes (Sir Walter Carrister), J. Carrol Naish (Commissioner of War Trotsky), Walter Byron (Under Secretary Stanley), Cesar Romero (Tito Del Val), Arthur Aylesworth (Mr. Henry Farmer), Alphonse Ethier (Paul DeVigney), Frank Reicher (Mr. X), Tenen Holtz (Lenin), Doris Lloyd (Lady Carrister), Mary Forbes (Lady Catherine Trehearne), Marina Koshetz (Maria Nikolaievna), George C. Pearce (Lloyd George), Gregory Gaye (Mr. Kolinoff), Paul Porcasi (Count Romano), Donald Crisp (Marshall O’Reilly (scenes deleted)), Lew Harvey (Suspect (scenes deleted)), Frank Lackteen (Suspect (scenes deleted)), Walter Armitage (Mr. Armitage, an Under Secretary), Edith Baker (Madame DeVigney), Thomas Braidon (Cabinet Member), Herbert Bunston (First Cabinet Member), Glen Cavender (Russian Policeman), Georgie Cooper (Mrs. Farmer), Joe De Stefani (Man Saying Lenin Regained Consciousness), Harrison Greene (Soviet Committeeman), Winter Hall (Cabinet Member), Olaf Hytten (Under Secretary Avery), Edward Keane (Dr. S. Prohoroff, Attending Lenin), Basil Lynn (Cabinet Member), Sylvia Marachi (Countess Romano), Joseph Mario (Stalin), Michael Mark (Soviet Committeeman), Claire McDowell (Woman Saying ’Lenin will Live’), William H. O’Brien (Waiter in British Embassy Party), Vesey O’Davoren (Henderson, a Secretary), Addison Richards (Colonel Zubinoff), General Savitsky (Cossack Beating Woman), Harry Semels (Soviet Committeeman), Leonid Snegoff (Russian Diplomat at British Embassy Party), Wyndham Standing (Englishman Talking to Carrister at Party), Norman Stengel (Radek), Zozia Tanina (Dora Kaplan, Woman Who Shot Lenin), Fred Walton (Cabinet Member), Leo White (Guest in British Embassy Party), Robert Wilber (Suspect), Corinne Williams (Dora Kaplan, Woman Who Shot Lenin)
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Runtime: 80 min; B&W
- Aka: Brutal Agent
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