Ratten im Secret Service

Originaltitel: Danger Route

1967
16
1 Std. 32 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,6/10

528

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Barbara Bouchet, Richard Johnson, and Carol Lynley in Ratten im Secret Service (1967)

During the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuDuring the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving doubl... Alles lesenDuring the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.During the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,6/10

528

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Wissenswertes
Lead actor Richard Johnson has said that Seth Holt was one of the best directors he has ever worked with.

Patzer
About an hour in, they are travelling to Weymouth on what is supposed to be a British Railways (BR) express passenger train. The exterior shot, however, shows a green WD (War Department) class locomotive, which belonged to, and ran on, the Longmoor Military Railway (LMR). This engine would never have been used on a BR train.

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Brian Stern: It doesn't matter what country you work for. If you're not a member of the ruling class, you're a sheep.

Soundtracks
Danger Route
Written by Lionel Bart
Sung by Anita Harris
[Played over opening title card and credits]

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Forgotten British B-pic...

. But worth noting for its star Richard Johnson and director Seth Holt. A former Royal Shakespeare Company actor, Johnson was Bond director Terence Young's original choice to play 007 and might have proved much closer to author Ian Fleming's concept of him. Indeed, Johnson was briefly groomed by the Rank Organisation in the late Sixties as their answer to Sean Connery, hoping to ride the Bond slipstream (but the two films Deadlier Than the Male and Some Girls Do were too cynically packaged to work as either imitation or spoof).

Johnson's brand of worried suavity found a better vehicle here. A minor addition to the murkier side of the genre, it remains most notable for Holt. A former editor, Holt's deft cutting room skills had made two suspense films he directed for Hammer (Taste of Fear and The Nanny) unusually seamless and subtle.

Alas, in Danger Route, even his assured touch failed to enliven an intractable plot about Cross-Channel espionage. But an exceptionally strong support cast - Harry Andrews, Diana Dors and Gordon Jackson - and a certain casual ruthlessness, lift this film above the totally routine. And Carol Lynley and Barbara Bouchet are truly gorgeous.

Trite cynicisms and a trashy title-song date Danger Route unsympathetically. But Holt's admirers will discern enough in its minor virtues to compensate.