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Desperate Journey

Desperate Journey

6,1 /10 (31 Votes)
1942 EN 107 min

Overview

During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.

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Release date

26/09/1942

Votes

31

Popularity

1.5

Man alive, Just picture this excitement!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

107 min

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talisencrw

2016-10-07

⭐ 8

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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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2022-12-08

⭐ 2

**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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