Saturday Night Cinema: Secret Agent

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Tonight's Saturday Night feature is a perennial Atlas favorite: Hitchcock, of course. Secret Agent is one of Hitchcock's "best and most disturbing British films."

Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along with The 39 Steps and Sabotage). Set during WWI, John Gielgud plays British novelist Edgar Brodie, who discovers that a government agency has faked his own death.

A sharp and talented cast of actors — riveting. Peter Lorre is, as always, simply delicious (love his threads). The movie crackles with suspense.

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I was forced to sit through a movie last night that recently played in movie theaters (the name escapes me) and was dumbstruck at the garbage that passes for "film." The man/woman dynamic is all but gone. Sex is rote, boring …… a body function akin to a bowel movment. The dialogue is stupid, sophomoric, embarrassing even. There are no adults anymore. And the portrayal of adults as drug-addled, promiscuous hippies is tragic. It is shocking how Hollywood has suicided one of the greatest art forms of the American experiment. If there were punishment for cultural crimes, what they have done to cinema would be a capital offense. Devastating. And the equally morally bankrupt media extols this filth, never once admitting the Emperor has no clothes.

Sit back and watch a wonderful film. Dwell not on what was lost, but on how we will regain our ground and purge this cultural cancer.

SECRET AGENT, as adapted from a play by Campbell Dixon which was based on W. Somerset Maugham's "Ashenden" spy stories; screen play by Charles Bennett; dialogue by Ian Hay, with continuity by Alma Reville; directed by Alfred Hitchcock; produced by Gaumont-British at the Roxy.

Elsa . . . . . Madeleine Carroll
The General . . . . . Peter Lorre
Ashenden . . . . . John Gielgud
Marvin . . . . . Robert Young
Caypor . . . . . Percy Marmont
Mrs. Caypor . . . . . Florence Kahn
R . . . . . Charles Carson
Lilli . . . . . Lilli Palmer

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MA02169
MA02169
12 years ago

This is an article by Walter E. Williams; 11/30/11
Ending Income Inequality?
Benefiting from a hint from an article titled “Is Harry Potter Making You Poorer?”, written by my colleague Dr. John Goodman, president of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, I’ve come up with an explanation and a way to end income inequality in America, possibly around the world. Joanne Rowling was a welfare mother in Edinburgh, Scotland. All that has changed. As the writer of the “Harry Potter” novels, having a net worth of $1 billion, she is the world’s wealthiest author. More importantly, she’s one of those dastardly 1-percenters condemned by the Occupy Wall Streeters and other leftists.
This article is kind of long, but you can read it here: http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/11/EndingIncomeInequality

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
12 years ago

I haven’t bothered to go to a movie in years, because it’s mostly recycled garbage that’s not worth the time to watch. Television is mostly worse, which is amazing considering how bad movies are.

Paulo Mendonca
Paulo Mendonca
12 years ago

It´s a beautiful movie.
One of my favourite ones.
Hollywood has died.
I don’t watch the new movies.
Paulo
Rio

Underzog
Underzog
12 years ago

If I remember correctly, Ayn Rand said that Alfred Hitchcock uses horror to cover up his romanticism.
I don’t know if that is true, but it is an interesting comment.

Eva
Eva
12 years ago

I couldn’t agree more. I rarely see a movie in theaters anymore because I always walk away feeling like I’ve been had. On the rare occassion that I watch a Pay Per View movie, most of the time I regret having spent the $4.99 on such garbage.
I was thinking today about why Hollywood makes all of these remake movies. They are almost never as good or better than the original. Then I realized it’s so they can sex up the new version, add some gays and wash away any moral teachings that used to be a staple of good film.

sheeeeesh
sheeeeesh
12 years ago

I was forced to sit through a movie last night that recently played in movie theaters (the name escapes me) and was dumbstruck at the garbage that passes for “film.” The man/woman dynamic is all but gone. Sex is rote, boring …… a body function akin to a bowel movment. The dialogue is stupid, sophomoric, embarrassing even. There are no adults anymore. And the portrayal of adults as drug-addled, promiscuous hippies is tragic.
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