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'''''Desperate Journey''''' is a [[1942 in film|1942]] [[Cinema of the United States|American]] [[World War II]] [[aviation]] film starring [[Errol Flynn]] and [[Ronald Reagan]]. The supporting cast includes [[Raymond Massey]], [[Alan Hale, Sr.|Alan Hale]] |
'''''Desperate Journey''''' is a [[1942 in film|1942]] [[Cinema of the United States|American]] [[World War II]] [[aviation]] film starring [[Errol Flynn]] and [[Ronald Reagan]]. The supporting cast includes [[Raymond Massey]], [[Alan Hale, Sr.|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 [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] airmen besting the Third Reich, often with their fists. |
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The surviving crew members of a [[Royal Air Force]] [[bomber]] shot down near the [[History of Poland (1939–1945)|former Polish]] border traverse the breadth of [[Nazi Germany]] and the [[History of the Netherlands (1939–1945)|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. |
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| Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
| Written by | Arthur T. Horman |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Starring | Errol Flynn Ronald Reagan |
| Cinematography | Bert Glennon |
| Edited by | Rudi Fehr |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release dates |  September 25, 1942 |
Running time | 107 min. |
| Country | US |
| 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.
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
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