Desperate Journey

Sep 26, 1942

1h 47m

★ 6.1

Man alive, Just picture this excitement!

Overview

During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.

Genres

War

Adventure

Action

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Desperate Journey Trailers

Cast

Flight Lt. Terry Forbes

Errol Flynn

Flight Officer Johnny Hammond

Ronald Reagan

Kaethe Brahms

Nancy Coleman

Major Otto Baumeister

Raymond Massey

Sgt. Kirk Edwards

Alan Hale

Flight Officer Jed Forrest

Arthur Kennedy

Sgt. Lloyd Hollis

Ronald Sinclair

Dr. Ludwig Mather

Albert Bassermann

Preuss

Sig Ruman

Squad Leader Lane-Ferris

Patrick O'Moore

Hermann Brahms

Felix Basch

Frau Brahms

Ilka Grüning

March 1943. In the middle of the Italian occupation of Corsica, two Communist resistance brothers strategically link up with two Italian trouffions in order to get the information necessary to organize the parachute drops on the Balagne. A real friendship is born between these men, the first steps of the reversal of the situation and of the alliance that followed the Allied landing in Ajaccio in September of the same year.

6.2

Let George Do It!

Jul 12, 1940

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.

6.8

Stalag Luft

Oct 27, 1993

Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three escape attempts to his name, each successive attempt he makes to break free somehow seems to go worse than the last. But this time there's a difference, because Officer Forrester isn't just plotting his own escape, but the escape of all 327 of his fellow prisoners as well - and all at once. In fact even the Germans want to escape!

6.0

Counterblast

May 18, 1948

An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.

5.8

A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise

Aug 1, 2012

When Sammy and Ray find themselves trapped in The Tank, an underwater aquarium, they must hatch a plan to escape and reunite with their grandkids, Ricky and Ella, and protect them from the dangers of the ocean.

6.0

Possibility Zero

May 17, 1969

Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.

6.4

Until They Sail

Oct 8, 1957

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.

8.0

Dénoncer sous l'Occupation

Mar 7, 2012

No overview available.

5.8

Ouzeri Tsitsanis

Dec 3, 2015

During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families overcome all the obstacles, along with racial discriminations and hardship? The story mainly takes place in an ouzeria, in which Tsitsanis works, one of the greatest Greek composer, librettist and singer in the 20th century.

5.1

Don't Go Near the Water

Nov 14, 1957

Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.

5.9

Battle of the Bulge: Winter War

Nov 6, 2020

Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers must defend a vital supply depot from being captured by attacking German soldiers.

4.3

Nazi Overlord

Nov 13, 2018

A D-Day rescue mission turns ugly when a band of Allied soldiers battle with horrific experiments created by the Nazis.

5.5

15 Lads

Jan 5, 2011

Summer 1944, France. Racine is a carefree 19-year-old first-aid worker, his secret desire is to be able to sleep with Isabelle, the girl he's in love with. One evening they are about to take the plunge, but a resistance fighter comes to ask for help. Racine goes up to the maquis to impress the young girl and joins a group of fifteen immature boys. But up there, nothing goes as planned. The war catches up with them, brutally marking the end of an innocence and Racine finds himself caught in the crossfire.

5.7

Wings for the Eagle

Jul 18, 1942

Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

7.1

Diamonds of the Night

Sep 25, 1964

Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Beyond themes of war and anti-Nazism, the film concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.

7.0

Back from the Front

May 28, 1943

The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are on a German war ship they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.

5.0

SS Strike at Dawn

Jan 1, 1958

During the Battle of Sutjeska, headquarters one of the a partisan detachment, decides to enter deeper into the forest to save a few soldiers and wounded from inevitable death. Commander of the detachment, sent a group of fighters in the reconnaissance. As time goes on, the Germans are getting closer to discovering the detachment and wounded, hunger, exhaustion, forcing people to surrender, but at the time of surrender, and when the Germans discovered detachment, there is a sudden rescue from the group that was in the field reconnaissance.