Desperate Journey

Name: Desperate Journey
Genre: War, Adventure, Action
Released: 1942-09-26
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 6.1

★ 6,1 /10 (33 Votes)

1942 EN 107 min

Overview

A British bomber crew, including Australian and American, is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.

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26/09/1942

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War Adventure Action

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Released

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Runtime

107 min

Errol Flynn

Flight Lt. Terry Forbes

Ronald Reagan

Flight Officer Johnny Hammond

Nancy Coleman

Kaethe Brahms

Raymond Massey

Major Otto Baumeister

Alan Hale

Sgt. Kirk Edwards

Arthur Kennedy

Flight Officer Jed Forrest

Ronald Sinclair

Sgt. Lloyd Hollis

Albert Bassermann

Dr. Ludwig Mather

Sig Ruman

Preuss

Patrick O'Moore

Squad Leader Lane-Ferris

Felix Basch

Hermann Brahms

Ilka Grüning

Frau Brahms

Elsa Bassermann

Frau Raeder

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Charles Irwin

Captain Coswick

Richard Fraser

Squadron Leader Clark

Rudolph Anders

Kruse

Henry Victor

Heinrich Schwarzmueller

Walter Brooke

Sgt. Warwick

Kurt Katch

Hesse

Harry Lewis

Evans

Otto Reichow

Pvt. Koenig

Bruce Lester

Lester Matthews

John Banner

Helmut Dantine

Gene Garrick

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Ludwig Hardt

Henry Rowland

Richard Ryen

Ernö Verebes

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Rex Williams

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Victor Zimmerman

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Basically 'Errol Flynn vs. the Nazis, Round 1' Battleground: Germany This experience was hampered for me by a freak situation in which either my flatscreen TV or my blu player, for the first time, didn't have any audio, so, nonplussed yet equally dauntless, I just said 'what the hell', put on the subtitles and watched the film with no audio. (Later, I discovered that I could have just unplugged both for ten minutes and everything would have been normal. You live, you learn. It taught me to pay more attention to what was happening on the screen, so it wasn't an entirely wasted endeavor.) …

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**Pure war propaganda.** This 1942 film is one of many films that were made during World War II, and that are themed around the conflict itself. During the war, American actors engaged in the military effort in films that sought to boost morale and incite combat, with the heroism of the Americans and British being almost the key to defeating the Axis, and the attractive Resistance girls to be their perfect romantic matches. This film takes the heroes, a British and American flight crew, on a suicide mission into German territory: to destroy a railway junction heavily defended by guns and…

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