The Secret Agent

Adaptations

Film

  • 1936, UK, retitled Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney and John Loder. This version departs considerably from the novel.[4]
  • 1996, UK film starring Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams and Christian Bale.[4]

Television

  • 1957, Canada, part of the Folio anthology series.[32]
  • 1957, UK, part of the ITV Play of the Week anthology series.[33]
  • 1959, Canada, part of the Ford Startime anthology series.[34]
  • 1967, UK BBC, in two episodes.[4][35][36][37]
  • 1975, UK BBC.[38][39]
  • 1981, France, L'agent secret, part of Le roman du samedi (The Saturday Novel) anthology series.[40]
  • 1992, UK BBC miniseries in three episodes, starring David Suchet and Peter Capaldi.[4][41]
  • 2001, UK 50-minute adaptation aired on the short-lived TV channel BBC Knowledge.[42]
  • 2016, UK BBC miniseries in three episodes, starring Toby Jones and Vicky McClure.[4]

Various scenes from the novel were also dramatised in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1987), a 60-minute UK documentary featuring Frances Barber, Hywel Bennett, Jim Broadbent and Brian Glover.[4]

Radio

  • 1951, adapted by Felix Felton and produced by Frank Hauser.[43]
  • 1953, adapted by Felix Felton and produced by Martyn C. Webster. Part of the Saturday Night Theatre series.[44]
  • 1967, in two episodes, adapted by Alexander Baron and produced by David Conroy.[45]
  • 1975, in two episodes, produced by Rosemary Hill.[46]
  • 1978, in 14 episodes, abridged and read by Gavin Campbell. Part of the Book at Bedtime series.[47]
  • 1984, in 14 episodes, abridged by Jacek Laskowski and directed by Richard Imison.[48]
  • 2006, in two episodes, abridged by David Napthine, produced and directed by Jessica Dromgoole. Part of the Classic Serial series.[49][50]

Audible audiobooks have produced at least 13 different unabridged readings of the novel, including in French, German and Spanish.[51]

Opera

Conrad's novel has been adapted as operas by Simon Wills (2006), Michael Dellaira (2011), and Allen Reichman and Curtis Bryant (2013).[4]


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