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Secret Lives
Brigitte Horney (right) in a scene from the film.
Directed by Edmond T. Gréville
Written by Jeffrey Dell
Edmond T. Gréville
Basil Mason
Hugh Perceval
Paul de Sainte Colombe (novel)
Produced byHugh Perceval
Starring Brigitte Horney
Neil Hamilton
Raymond Lovell
Cinematography Otto Heller
Edited by Ray Pitt
Music by Walter Goehr
Production
company
Phoenix Films
Distributed by Associated British Film Distributors
Release date
  • 27 September 1937 (1937-09-27)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Secret Lives is a 1937 British war drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Brigitte Horney, Neil Hamilton and Raymond Lovell. It was made at Ealing Studios by the independent Phoenix Films. [1] The screenplay concerns a young woman who is recruited into the French secret service.

The film is also known by the alternative title of I Married a Spy.

Plot

At the outbreak of the First World War a young German-born woman living in Paris is interned and then recruited into the French secret service for operations against Germany.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Wood p.92

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

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