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Desperate Journey ()

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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.
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Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes
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Flying Officer Johnny Hammond
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Kaethe Brahms
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Major Otto Baumeister
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Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards
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Flying Officer Jed Forrest
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Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis
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Dr. Ludwig Mather (as Albert Basserman)
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Preuss
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Squadron Leader Lane-Ferris
Felix Basch ...
Hermann Brahms
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Frau Brahms (as Ilka Gruning)
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Frau Raeder (as Else Basserman)
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Captain Coswick
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Squadron Leader Clark
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Kruse (as Robert O. Davis)
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Heinrich Schwarzmueller
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English Officer
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Wing Commander
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Frank Alten ...
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Louis V. Arco ...
Feldwebel (Sgt.) Gertz (uncredited)
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Conductor on Empty Troop Train (uncredited)
Barry Bernard ...
Squadron Commander (uncredited)
Walter Bonn ...
Sentry (uncredited)
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Mechanic (uncredited)
John Breen ...
Soldier (uncredited)
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Flight Sgt. Warwick (uncredited)
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Radio Operator (uncredited)
Russell Custer ...
Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
Harold Daniels ...
German Soldier (uncredited)
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German Co-Pilot (uncredited)
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Radio Operator (uncredited)
Carl Ekberg ...
Telephone Repairman (uncredited)
Charles Flynn ...
Post Sentry (uncredited)
Arno Frey ...
Pvt. Trocha (uncredited)
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Polish Saboteur (uncredited)
Frederick Giermann ...
German Sergeant (uncredited)
Henry Guttman ...
German Soldier (uncredited)
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German Soldier Shooting at Lockheed Plane (uncredited)
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German Soldier (uncredited)
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Pharmacist (uncredited)
James Harker ...
Pilot (uncredited)
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Radio Operator (uncredited)
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Hesse (uncredited)
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Evans (uncredited)
Rolf Lindau ...
Sergeant (uncredited)
Jack Lomas ...
Magnus (uncredited)
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Decoder (uncredited)
Peter Michael ...
German Gunner (uncredited)
Ray Miller ...
Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
Rudolf Myzet ...
Chauffeur (uncredited)
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Plotting Officer (uncredited)
Don Phillips ...
Kenton (uncredited)
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Pvt. Koenig (uncredited)
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German Fighter Pilot (uncredited)
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Staadtpoliceman Heinze (uncredited)
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink ...
Sentry (uncredited)
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Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
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Driver (uncredited)
Rudolf Steinboeck ...
German Soldier (uncredited)
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Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
Sigfrid Tor ...
Pvt. Rasek (uncredited)
Sid Troy ...
Radio Operator (uncredited)
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Strolling German Soldier (uncredited)
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Unteroffizier (uncredited)
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German Sergeant (uncredited)
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Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
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Gate Sentry (uncredited)
Hans von Morhart ...
Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
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German Soldier (uncredited)
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British Officer Playing Dice (uncredited)
Rex Williams ...
Sgt. Tause (uncredited)
William Yetter Sr. ...
Gestapo Agent (uncredited)
Victor Zimmerman ...
Capt. Eggerstedt (uncredited)

Directed by

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Raoul Walsh

Written by

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Arthur T. Horman ... (original screenplay)

Produced by

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Jack Saper ... associate producer (uncredited)
Hal B. Wallis ... producer

Music by

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Max Steiner

Cinematography by

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Bert Glennon ... director of photography

Editing by

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Rudi Fehr ... film editor

Art Direction by

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Carl Jules Weyl

Costume Design by

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Milo Anderson ... (gowns)

Makeup Department

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Perc Westmore ... makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Claude Archer ... assistant director (uncredited)
Russell Saunders ... assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department

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C.A. Riggs ... sound

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Edwin B. DuPar ... special effects (as Edwin A. DuPar)
Byron Haskin ... special effects (uncredited)
Nathan Levinson ... special effects (uncredited)

Stunts

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Duke Green ... stunts (uncredited)
Harvey Parry ... stunts (uncredited)
Allen Pomeroy ... stunts (uncredited)
Buster Wiles ... stunts (uncredited)
Jack Woody ... stunts (uncredited)

Music Department

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Leo F. Forbstein ... musical director
Hugo Friedhofer ... orchestral arrangements / composer: additional music (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Owen Cathcart-Jones ... technical advisor: R.A.F. sequences (as Squadron Leader O. Cathcart-Jones R.C.A.F.)
Hugh MacMullan ... dialogue director
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Plot Summary

When Flight Lt Forbes and his crew are shot down after bombing their target they discover valuable information about a hidden German aircraft factory that must get back to England. In their way across Germany, they try to cause as much damage as possible. Then, with the pursuing Germans about to pounce, they come up with an ingenious plan to escape. Written by mike.wilson6@btinternet.com

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Taglines Man alive, just picture this excitement! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Forced Landing (United States)
  • Sabotage à Berlin (France)
  • Jornada desesperada (Spain)
  • La aventura imposible (Venezuela)
  • Fugitivos del infierno (Argentina)
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  • 107 min
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Budget $1,209,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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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." See more »
Goofs The same shot of a railroad area being blown up is used twice, once to depict the site blown up by the saboteur at the beginning, and soon after as the area being bombed by the RAF bomber plane. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Raoul Walsh and Errol Flynn (2002). See more »
Soundtracks Waltzing Matilda See more »
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.
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