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Desperate Journey
Cover of the 1994 home video release.Directed by Raoul Walsh Produced by Hal B. Wallis Written by Arthur T. Horman Starring Errol Flynn
Ronald ReaganMusic by Max Steiner Cinematography Bert Glennon Editing by Rudi Fehr Distributed by Warner Bros. Release date(s) September 25, 1942 Running time 107 min. Country United States Language English Desperate Journey is a 1942 American World War II aviation film starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. The supporting cast includes Raymond Massey, Alan Hale and Arthur Kennedy, and the movie was directed by Raoul Walsh. Fast-paced and not overly serious, it showed wartime audiences a handful of downed Allied airmen besting the Third Reich, often with their fists.
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Plot
The surviving crew members of a Royal Air Force bomber shot down near the former Polish border traverse the breadth of Nazi Germany and the occupied Netherlands to get back to England. Led by Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes, an Australian (Flynn), and Flying Officer Johnny Hammond, an American (Reagan), pursued by a Nazi major (Massey) and aided by an anti-Nazi nurse (Coleman), the men repeatedly evade capture, eventually flying home in a recaptured British airplane that the Germans had planned to use in a sneak attack on London.
Cast
- Errol Flynn as Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes
- Ronald Reagan as Flying Officer Johnny Hammond
- Nancy Coleman as Kaethe Brahms
- Raymond Massey as Major Otto Baumeister
- Alan Hale as Flight Sgt. Kirk Edwards
- Arthur Kennedy as Flying Officer Jed Forrest
- Ronald Sinclair as Flight Sgt. Lloyd Hollis II
Reception
This film went on to gross $2 million for Warners Bros., the third Flynn film of that year to reach that coveted mark, according to Variety.
See also
References
External links
- Desperate Journey at the Internet Movie Database
- Desperate Journey at the TCM Movie Database
- Desperate Journey at AllRovi
Films directed by Raoul Walsh 1910s The Life of General Villa (1914) · Regeneration (1915) · Carmen (1915) · The Serpent (1916) · The Prussian Cur (1918)1920s Kindred of the Dust (1922) · Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923) · The Thief of Bagdad (1924) · The Lucky Lady (1926) · What Price Glory? (1926) · Sadie Thompson (1928) · The Cock-Eyed World (1929) · Hot for Paris (1929)1930s The Big Trail (1930) · The Man Who Came Back (1931) · The Yellow Ticket (1931) · Wild Girl (1932) · Me and My Gal (1932) · Sailor's Luck (1933) · Hello, Sister! (1933) · The Bowery (1933) · Going Hollywood (1933) · Every Night at Eight (1935) · Klondike Annie (1936) · Big Brown Eyes (1936) · Artists and Models (1937) · Hitting a New High (1937) · College Swing (1938) · St. Louis Blues (1939) · The Roaring Twenties (1939)1940s Dark Command (1940) · They Drive by Night (1940) · High Sierra (1941) · The Strawberry Blonde (1941) · Manpower (1941) · They Died with Their Boots On (1941) · Desperate Journey (1942) · Gentleman Jim (1942) · Background to Danger (1943) · Northern Pursuit (1943) · Uncertain Glory (1944) · Objective, Burma! (1945) · Salty O'Rourke (1945) · The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) · The Man I Love (1947) · Pursued (1947) · Cheyenne (1947) · Silver River (1948) · Fighter Squadron (1948) · One Sunday Afternoon (1948) · Colorado Territory (1949) · White Heat (1949)1950s Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) · Along the Great Divide (1951) · Distant Drums (1951) · Glory Alley (1952) · The World in His Arms (1952) · Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) · The Lawless Breed (1953) · Sea Devils (1953) · A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) · Gun Fury (1953) · Saskatchewan (1954) · Battle Cry (1955) · The Tall Men (1955) · The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) · The King and Four Queens (1956) · Band of Angels (1957) · The Naked and the Dead (1958) · The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) · A Private's Affair (1959)1960s Categories:- English-language films
- 1942 films
- 1940s drama films
- 1940s war films
- American films
- Black-and-white films
- Aviation films
- Films directed by Raoul Walsh
- Warner Bros. films
- World War II films
- Films about shot-down aviators
- World War II films made in wartime
- War film stubs
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