Following the previous year's The 39 Steps, Hitchcock again cast Madeleine Carroll as a feisty leading lady with considerable more get-up-and-go than the hero - here, the young John Gielgud as a spectacularly languid spy reluctantly recruited to kill a foreign agent. Some fine set pieces - including a train crash and a climactic chase through a Swiss chocolate factory - complement a scene-stealing performance from Peter Lorre. Keep looking closely for Michael Redgrave's screen debut in a Turkish bath scene.

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