Terrence Forbes e sua destemida tripulação são abatidos durante uma missão. Com os perseguidores prestes a atacar, eles precisam bolar um plano engenhoso para escapar.Terrence Forbes e sua destemida tripulação são abatidos durante uma missão. Com os perseguidores prestes a atacar, eles precisam bolar um plano engenhoso para escapar.Terrence Forbes e sua destemida tripulação são abatidos durante uma missão. Com os perseguidores prestes a atacar, eles precisam bolar um plano engenhoso para escapar.
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- Dr. Ludwig Mather
- (as Albert Basserman)
- Frau Brahms
- (as Ilka Gruning)
- Frau Raeder
- (as Else Basserman)
- Kruse
- (as Robert O. Davis)
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Flynn and his pals crash land in Germany and attempt to fulfill their mission plus destroy other enemy sites and enemies as they make their way to safety.
For guys trapped in an enemy country, arrested at one point, and in constant danger, they're a pretty lighthearted bunch. They're also amazing at getting out of tight spots.
While it's not particularly realistic, "Desperate Journey" is very entertaining with non-stop action all the way, a charming performance by that prince of charm, Errol Flynn, and good support. People are terrible about Ronald Reagan's acting - he didn't have much range, but he was pleasant enough and very good for a role in this kind of film.
One interesting thing is that I didn't understand any of the German, which I usually do, so I wondered if it was a dialect. As usual, the actors used the formal instead of the familiar tense, which I doubt officers did when speaking to soldiers.
In one part of the movie, a German is asked if he speaks English, and he answers, "I speak as if I was in London born," which is exactly the way the German language is spoken, with the verb at the end. So someone knew what they were doing.
Recommended.
There is plenty of excitement as they try to evade their captors, the head being a very German-like Raymond Massey in another of his stellar performances. Alan Hale and Sig Ruman, the latter in one scene, bring comic relief.
Of course, there is the cliché speech of Nancy Coleman, a German helping the allies, who stays despite the fact that the Nazis know her whereabouts. Her speech about patriotism is familiar but keenly on target.
We have exciting chase scenes, and wonderful sabotage by our heroes inflicted upon Massey and his group of vultures.
A wonderful war-time journey that should be viewed by all.
Errol Flynn plays a downed RAF pilot making his journey through enemy territory disguised as a German officer... In addition to evading capture he manages with his crew, a Scottish veteran of World War I, Alan Hale; a Canadian navigator, Arthur Kennedy; an American Ronald Reagan and a young Englishman Ronald Sinclair, to blow up a secret chemical plant and steal a German bomber from a Messerschmitt factory...
The film (with exciting music by Max Steiner) ends with Flynn leading an RAF assault on the airplane factory after various acts of sabotage & violent conflict, aided and inspired by an anti-Nazi German family headed by a pleasant doctor (Albert Basserman) & his sweet daughter (Nancy Coleman).
The best scene comes early in the picture, when a Nazi Major (Raymond Massey) after having questioned the captured RAF crew, calls for a private interview with Reagan, thinking he will agree to reveal what he knows about the new RAF bomber engines, and recites easily an impressive number of facts about the component parts--all nonsense... Once he has the major's rapt attention, he punches him on the jaw, knocking him out and then help himself to the major's breakfast...
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- CuriosidadesWhen 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."
- Erros de gravaçãoThe 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.
- Citações
[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.
- ConexõesFeatured in Raoul Walsh and Errol Flynn (2002)
- Trilhas sonorasWaltzing 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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- US$ 1.209.000 (estimativa)
- Tempo de duração
- 1 h 47 min(107 min)
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