Desperate Journey

Desperate Journey
Cover of the 1994 home video release.
Directed by	Raoul Walsh
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis
Written by	Arthur T. Horman
Starring	Errol Flynn Ronald Reagan
Music by	Max Steiner
Cinematography	Bert Glennon
Editing by	Rudi Fehr
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	September 25, 1942
Running time	107 min.
Country	United States
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

Reception

This film went on to gross $2 million for Warners Bros., the third Flynn film of that year to reach that coveted mark, according to Variety.

See also

• Ronald Reagan films

External links

• Desperate Journey at the Internet Movie Database
• Desperate Journey at the TCM Movie Database
• Desperate Journey at AllRovi