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Desperate Journey is a american film of genre Drama directed by Raoul Walsh released in USA on 26 september 1942 with Errol Flynn
Desperate Journey (1942)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 26 september 1942
Length 1h47
Directed by Raoul Walsh
OriginUSA
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Rating67%
Desperate Journey is a 1942 American World War II action and aviation film starring Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, directed by Raoul Walsh. The supporting cast includes Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Sr., and Arthur Kennedy. The melodramatic film featured a group of downed Allied airmen making their way out of the Third Reich, often with their fists.
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Assigned to bomb a German railway, Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes (Errol Flynn) presses home an attack but flies too low and the RAF bomber is shot down near the former Polish border. Along with his crew, consisting of Flying Officer Johnny Hammond (Ronald Reagan), Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards (Alan Hale, Sr.), Flying Officer Jed Forrest (Arthur Kennedy) and Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis (Ronald Sinclair) who is wounded, they are captured by the Germans.Actors
Errol Flynn
(Flight Lt. Terry Forbes)
Ronald Reagan
(Flying Officer Johnny Hammond)
Raymond Massey
(Major Otto Baumeister)
John Arthur Kennedy
(Flight Officer Jed Forrest)
Nancy Coleman
(Kaethe Brahms)
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