Action

Thriller

Danger Route

Amicus Productions

United Artists

United Kingdom

English

Richard Johnson

Carol Lynley

Barbara Bouchet

Sylvia Syms

Gordon Jackson

Diana Dors

Maurice Denham

Sam Wanamaker

David Bauer

Robin Bailey

Harry Andrews

Julian Chagrin

Reg Lye

Timothy Bateson

Ted Wallis

Evelyn Gibbs

Stephen Christian

Tony Wallis

Sid Squires

Nolan Roberts

Philip Martell

Gerry Anstiss

Cecil Cooney

Andrew York

Andrew Low

Ann Fordyce

Derek Parr

Bill Waldron

Seth Holt

Clive Smith

Milton Subotsky

Max Rosenberg

Yvonne Caffin

Meade Roberts

Harry Waxman

Robert Banks Stewart

William Constable

Kay Mander

Oswald Hafenrichter

Don Mingaye

John Mayer

George Partleton

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At times this is in danger of tripping over it's own cloak and stabbing itself, but Richard Johnson ("Wilde") still just about manages to keep it interesting for ninety minutes. He is a British secret agent who is charged with bumping off a Czech scientist who has defected to join the CIA in the UK. Needless to say, this is not going to be a straightforward quest - and it only becomes more complicated when he discovers that there is an whole network of people in whom he is uncertain he can trust. Those duplicitous individuals include his own boss "Canning" (Harry Andrews) and a host of recognisable British faces - Gordon Jackson, Maurice Denham and Diana Dors as well as his CIA oppo "Lucinda" (Sam Wanamaker). In the best tradition of John Buchan's "39 Steps", the search leads him to a remote Channel Island location where peril lurks and bodies start piling up. It's a bit on the long side this, it would have made for a better and more enthralling hour or so, and director Seth Holt could have cut out much of the rather yawning character establishment and a fair chunk of the rather wordy dialogue. Still, once we get into the home straight, it offers a fair degree of intrigue and is an adequate cold war thriller that passes the time, but is unlikely a film you will ever want to watch again.

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