Danger Route

Danger Route
Original film poster
Directed by	Seth Holt
Produced by	Max Rosenberg Milton Subotsky Ted Willis
Written by	Meade Roberts Robert Banks Stewart(screenplay) Andrew York (novel)
Starring	Richard Johnson Carol Lynley Barbara Bouchet Sylvia Syms Gordon Jackson
Music by	John Mayer Lionel Bart (title song)
Cinematography	Harry Waxman
Editing by	Oswald Hafenrichter
Studio	Amicus
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	October 1967
Running time	91 mins
Country	British
Language	English

Danger Route is a 1967 British spy film directed by Seth Holt for Amicus Productions and starring Richard Johnson as Jonas Wilde, Carol Lynley and Barbara Bouchet.^[1] It was based on Andrew York's 1966 novel The Eliminator^[2] that was the working title of the film.^[3] The film was released in the United States as a double feature with Attack on the Iron Coast.^[4]

Plot

A leading British secret agent/assassin returns home to the Channel Islands from a mission in the Caribbean fearing his nerve has gone, and attempts to resign. He is persuaded by his superiors to undergo a final mission and assassinate a defector but the job turns out to be much more complex than he had been led to believe.

Cast

• Richard Johnson - Jonas Wilde
• Carol Lynley - Jocelyn
• Barbara Bouchet - Marita
• Sylvia Syms - Barbara Canning
• Gordon Jackson - Brian Stern
• Diana Dors - Rhoda Gooderich
• Maurice Denham - Peter Ravenspur
• Sam Wanamaker - Lucinda
• David Bauer - Bennett
• Robin Bailey - Parsons
• Harry Andrews - Canning
• Julian Chagrin - Matsys
• Reg Lye - Balin
• Leslie Sands - Man in Cinema
• Timothy Bateson -Halliwell

References

1. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/30649
2. ^ http://www.crimetime.co.uk/community/mag.php/showarticle/1790
3. ^ http://www.tcmuk.tv/movie_database_results.php?action=title&id=72184
4. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B01E6DC1F39E134BC4E53DFB0668383679EDE

External links

• Danger Route at the Internet Movie Database