Danger Route

Danger Route
Original film poster
Directed by	Seth Holt
Produced by	Max Rosenberg Milton Subotsky Ted Wallis
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
Edited by	Oswald Hafenrichter
Production company	Amicus
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	October 1967 (1967-10)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
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

Production

The film was an attempt to cash in on the popularity of James Bond movies. Milton Subotsky called the movie doomed, saying the director Seth Holt was ill during filming, the script never worked and the cameraman was replaced in the middle of the shoot. Box office response was poor.^[5]

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/30649
↑ http://www.crimetime.co.uk/community/mag.php/showarticle/1790
↑ http://www.tcmuk.tv/movie_database_results.php?action=title&id=72184
↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B01E6DC1F39E134BC4E53DFB0668383679EDE
↑ Ed. Allan Bryce, Amicus: The Studio That Dripped Blood, Stray Cat Publishing, 2000 p 47-48

External links

Danger Route at the Internet Movie Database
Danger Route at Rotten Tomatoes

Films by Amicus Productions

It's Trad, Dad! (1962) Just for Fun (1963) Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) The Skull (1965) Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966) The Psychopath (1966) The Deadly Bees (1966) Torture Garden (1967) Danger Route (1967) They Came from Beyond Space (1967) The Terrornauts (1967) The Birthday Party (1968) A Touch of Love (1969) The Mind of Mr. Soames (1969) The House That Dripped Blood (1970) Scream and Scream Again (1970) (unofficial) I, Monster (1971) What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972) Asylum (1972) Tales from the Crypt (1972) The Vault of Horror (1973) From Beyond the Grave (1974) And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) The Beast Must Die (1974) Madhouse (1974) The Land That Time Forgot (1975) At the Earth's Core (1976) The People That Time Forgot (1977)

See also	The City of the Dead (1960) The Uncanny (1977) Dominique (1980) The Monster Club (1980)

The films of Seth Holt

Nowhere to Go (1958) Taste of Fear (1961) Station Six-Sahara (1962) The Nanny (1965) Danger Route (1967) Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)

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