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. It is famous in American movie trivia for featuring Ronald Reagan, future President of the United States, wearing a Nazi uniform in some scenes. 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 , and Flying Officer Johnny Hammond, an American , pursued by a Nazi major and aided by an anti-Nazi nurse , 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. 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.
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| Release date: | 1942 |
| Directed by: | Raoul Walsh |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | Hal B. Wallis |
| Editor: | Rudi Fehr |
| Music by: | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography: | Bert Glennon |
| Genre: | Action |