The Secret Agent
1998
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Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, which also formed the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 'Sabotage'. Adolph Verloc (Bob Hoskins) is a Russian spy living as a shopkeeper in 1880s London with his wife, Winnie (Patricia Arquette), and her mentally handicapped brother, Stevie (Christian Bale). When Verloc's Russian superiors order him to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in an act of terrorism, Verloc persuades Stevie to assist him. However, Stevie trips and explodes the bomb in Greenwich Park, killing himself and putting Chief Inspector Heat (Jim Broadbent) of Scotland Yard on Verloc's trail.
Main title:
The Secret Agent / director, Christopher Hampton; producer, Norma Heyman; writer, Christopher Hampton.
Author:
Hampton, Christopher, directorGlass, Philip, musicHoskins, Bob, actorArquette, Patricia, actorDepardieu, Gérard, actorConrad, Joseph, book author
Edition:
Complete & Unabridged.
Imprint:
20th Century Fox Home Ent., 1998.
Collation:
1 videocassette (91 min.) : sd, col.
Notes:
4146.Made in 1996.Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad.Credits: music, Philip Glass.VN.Dolby Surround.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent, Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard, Elizabeth Spriggs, Peter Vaughan, Julian Wadham, Roger Hammond, Neville Phillips, Robin Williams.
Audience:
BBFC code: 12.
System details:
VHS.
Dewey class:
791.437
Language:
English
BRN:
2388979