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Desperate Journey

  • 1942
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  • 1h 47m
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Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and Nancy Coleman in Desperate Journey (1942)
When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.
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When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.

  • Director
    • Raoul Walsh
  • Writer
    • Arthur T. Horman
  • Stars
    • Errol Flynn
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Nancy Coleman
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    2.9K
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    • Director
      • Raoul Walsh
    • Writer
      • Arthur T. Horman
    • Stars
      • Errol Flynn
      • Ronald Reagan
      • Nancy Coleman
    • 54User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Errol Flynn
    Errol Flynn
    • Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond
    Nancy Coleman
    Nancy Coleman
    • Kaethe Brahms
    Raymond Massey
    Raymond Massey
    • Major Otto Baumeister
    Alan Hale
    Alan Hale
    • Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards
    Arthur Kennedy
    Arthur Kennedy
    • Flying Officer Jed Forrest
    Ronald Sinclair
    Ronald Sinclair
    • Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis
    Albert Bassermann
    Albert Bassermann
    • Dr. Ludwig Mather
    • (as Albert Basserman)
    Sig Ruman
    Sig Ruman
    • Preuss
    Patrick O'Moore
    Patrick O'Moore
    • Squadron Leader Lane-Ferris
    Felix Basch
    • Hermann Brahms
    Ilka Grüning
    Ilka Grüning
    • Frau Brahms
    • (as Ilka Gruning)
    Elsa Bassermann
    Elsa Bassermann
    • Frau Raeder
    • (as Else Basserman)
    Charles Irwin
    Charles Irwin
    • Captain Coswick
    Richard Fraser
    Richard Fraser
    • Squadron Leader Clark
    Rudolph Anders
    Rudolph Anders
    • Kruse
    • (as Robert O. Davis)
    Henry Victor
    Henry Victor
    • Heinrich Schwarzmueller
    Bruce Lester
    Bruce Lester
    • English Officer
    • Director
      • Raoul Walsh
    • Writer
      • Arthur T. Horman
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    • Trivia
      When Ronald Reagan's character is awakened, he complains that in his dream he had a date with Ann Sheridan. Reagan had played opposite Sheridan three times including his two previous features, "Juke Girl" and "Kings Row" (both 1942) and also "Angels Wash Their Faces" in 1939.
    • Goofs
      Near the end of the film where the three escapees board the captured British plane, they are attacked by the Germans. Flynn enters the gun turret, rotates it to sight the enemy then opens fire. When Reagan pulls his injured mate into the plane and closes the door, he relieves Flynn who goes forward to start the engines and fly out. Before this happens, Reagan again rotates the turret and fires on the Germans. Rotating the turret and firing the guns was worked by hydraulics which were only operable with the plane's engines running.
    • Quotes
      • [Major Otto Baumeister has told the captured crew that, since they know the location of an underground Messerschmitt underground factory, they will feel his iron fist. Now he separates Flying Officer Johnny Hammond from the rest, questioning him for intelligence]
      • Maj. Otto Baumeister: That plane you were flying, American-built, wasn't it? One of the new ones. We have heard a good deal about them. We know that they are capable of operating at amazing altitudes. How do you manage to supercharge the engines at the extreme cold of those high altitudes?
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: If I told you, the others wouldn't find out?
      • Maj. Otto Baumeister: Certainly not.
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: They can't hear us out there?
      • Maj. Otto Baumeister: Quite sure. Now, about the supercharger.
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: It's done with a thermotrockle.
      • Maj. Otto Baumeister: A what?
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: Thermotrockle amfilated through a daligonitor. Of course, this is made possible because the dernadyne has a franicoupling.
      • Maj. Otto Baumeister: I do not understand you.
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: I knew you wouldn't. The amsometer on the side prenulates the kinutaspel hepulace. That's the entire secret. There you have it.
      • Maj. Otto Baumeister: I do not follow you.
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: Well, maybe I could make it more clear if I drew a diagram.
      • Maj. Otto Baumeister: Certainly.
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: [Bending over as though to draw] There's three things you gotta understand. As I said before, the daligonitor is amfilated by the thermotrockle. It's made by its connection with the franicoupling of dernadyne. Even at cruising speed the kinutaspel hepulace is prenulated by the amsometer. Makes no difference. Could be taking off. Snowing or raining, any pilot will tell you that the altitude, 10, 20, 30, 40,000 feet...
      • [flexing his arm to strike]
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: [appearing casually in Baumeister's doorway] Oh, Terry. He wants to talk to you.
      • Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes: Oh. The major wants to see me.
      • [Forbes enters Baumeister's office and sees him under the desk, unconscious. he looks incredulously at Hammond]
      • Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: The iron fist has a glass jaw.
    • Connections
      Featured in Raoul Walsh and Errol Flynn (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Waltzing Matilda
      (1895) (uncredited)
      Original music by Christina Macpherson (1895)
      (Based on the Scottish tune "Craigielee", music by James Barr, with words by Robert Tannahill)
      Revised music by Marie Cowan (1903)
      Lyrics by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson (1895)
      Partially sung a cappella by Errol Flynn

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    Details

    • Release date
      • September 26, 1942 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Forced Landing
    • Filming locations
      • Metropolitan Airport - 6590 Hayvenhurst Avenue, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA(Airport scenes.)
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    Box office

    • Budget
      • $1,209,000 (estimated)
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    Tech specs

    • Runtime
      • 1h 47m(107 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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