SECRET AGENT

Original 10 inch x 8 inch Portrait of PETER LORRE in the 1936 Alfred Hitchcock Thriller SECRET AGENT, loosely based on two stories in “Ashenden: Or the British Agent” by W. Somerset Maugham .

The scenario is an ambitious web of double identity and double meaning. Edgar Brodie (Gielgud) is a British novelist-turned-spy who travels to Switzerland during World War I under the name of Richard Ashenden. With him are a fictional wife, Elsa Carrington (Carroll), and an eccentric hired assassin known as “the General” (Peter Lorre). Their mission is to find and kill a German spy, but first they must guess who he is.

The portrait is in fine condition.