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Secret Agent (1936)
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Secret Agent is a 1936 British espionage thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's short stories and a play by Campbell Dixon. In 1916, the British Army officer and novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) undertakes a secret mission to identify and eliminate a German agent who heads to stir up trouble on the Middle East and currently stays in Switzerland. Brodie gets the new identity of Richard Ashenden. In his mission he is accompanied by false Mrs. Ashenden - Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll) and by an assassin known as "The General" (Peter Lorre). But soon Edgar and Elsa understand that the mission of cold-blooded murder conflicts with their consciences.
The following weapons were used in the film Secret Agent (1936):
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Pistols
FN Model 1906
Robert Marvin (Robert Young) holds an FN Model 1906 pocket pistol (supposedly some clone) in the final scene. Elsa (Madeleine Carroll) manages to get the pistol, then it is hold by The General (Peter Lorre) and then again by Marvin.
Rifles
Mauser Gewehr 1898
Greece soldiers on the railway station and German soldiers in the train heading to Istanbul are armed with Mauser Gewehr 1898 rifles.
Machine Guns
MG08
German soldiers mount an MG08 on the rooftop of the train and use it against the British planes.
Vickers Mk.I
Another machine gun on the train is a Vickers Mk.I.
Trivia
During the visit to "R"'s office, Capt. Brodie carries a standard British holster for .455 Webley revolvers. The holster seems to be empty.
Footage
Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III*
The documentary footage shows the British soldiers in the Middle East armed with Lee-Enfield rifles, most likely Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III*.
