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.
[4] Jonas Wilde, a leading British agent, returns home from a mission in Guyana to Jersey, where he has a cover identity as the owner of a boatyard.
Responding to a personal message placed in The Times, Wilde travels to London to meet his superior Canning.
Canning however persuades him to undertake a mission to assassinate Balin, a scientist who has defected from the East and is staying in England before travelling to America.
Aboard the ferry, Wilde subdues Lucinda's associate Bennett and leaves him and Barbara tied up while he makes his escape.
[6] The New York Times said "the author has narrative vigour and a great deal of ingenuity in small details which is probably enough to outbalance his liberal use of plot cliches.
Film rights were bought by Amicus who in January 1967 announced they would make the movie from a script by Meade Roberts under the direction of Seth Holt.
[10] Milton Subotsky of Amicus 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.
[12] It was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Don Mingaye.