Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW000603 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1942 |
Original Title |
Desperate Journey |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Burbank, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Hal B. Wallis; Associate producer: Jack Saper; Dialoge direction: Hugh MacMullan; Assistent director: Claude Archer, Russ Saunders; Script: Arthur T. Horman; Based on: Arthur T. Horman (based on "Forced Landing"); Camera: Bert Glennon; Special optical effects: Edwin B. DuPar, Nathan Levinson, Byron Haskin; Editing: Rudi Fehr; Sound: C.A. Riggs; Art direction: Carl Jules Weyl; Technical consultant: Owen Cathcart-Jones (Technical Advisor on RAF Sequences); Special Effects: Edwin B. DuPar (Kamera); Costumes: Milo Anderson; Makeup: Perc Westmore; Music: Max Steiner; Musical direction: Leo F. Forbstein; Orchestration: Hugo Friedhofer |
Cast |
Errol Flynn (Flight Lieutenant Terrence Forbes); Ronald Reagan (Flying Officer Johnny Hammond); Nancy Coleman (Kaethe Brahms); Raymond Massey (Major Otto Baumeister); Alan Hale, Sr. (Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards); Arthur Kennedy (Flying Officer Jed Forrest); Ronald Sinclair (Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis); Albert Bassermann (Dr. Mather); Sig Rumann (Preuss); Patrick O'Moore (Squadron Leader Lane-Ferris); Felix Basch (Dr. Herman Brahms); Lutz Altschul (als: Louis Arco) (Feldwebel Gertz); Ilka Grüning (Frau Brahms); Elsa Bassermann (Frau Raeder); Charles Irwin (Captain Coswick); Richard Fraser (Squadron Leader Clark); Rudolf Amendt-Anders (als: Robert O. Davis) (Kruse); Henry Victor (Heinrich Schwartzmuller); Bruce Lester (Assistant Plotting Officer); Lester Matthews (Wing Commander); Walter Brooke (Flight Sergeant. Warwick); Harry Lewis (Evans); Don Phillips (Kenton); Victor Zimmermann (Captain Eggerstedt); Pat O'Hara (Plotting Officer); Fred Giermann (German Sergeant); Ernö Verebes (German Sergeant); Rex Williams (Sergeant Tause); Kurt Katch (Hesse); Helmut Dantine (German Copilot); Barry Bernard (Squadron Commander); James Harker (Pilot); William Hopper (als: De Wolf Hopper) (Aircraftsman / Radio Operator); Douglas Walton (British Officer); Richard Ryen (Staatspoliceman Heinze); Harold Daniels (German Soldier); Carl Harbaugh (German Soldier); Rudolph Steinbeck (Soldier); Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (Soldier); Philip Van Zandt (Strolling German Soldier); Henry Rowland (Motorcycle Scout); Frank Mayo (Officer / De-Coder); Frank Alten (Lieutenant); Arno Frey (Private Trecha); Sigfrid Tor (Private Rasek); Otto Reichow (Private Koenig); Eugene Gericke (als: Gene Garrick) (Polish Boy); Hans Schumm (Gestapo Agent); Robert R. Stephenson (Gestapo Agent); William Yetter, Jr. (Gestapo Agent); Ray Miller (Gestapo Agent); Hans von Morhart (Gestapo Agent); Frederick Vogeding (Gestapo Agent); Leslie Dennison (Operator); Carl Ekberg (Telephone Repairman); Rolf Myzet (als: Rudolf Myzet) (Chauffeur); Lester Sharpe (Driver); Peter Michael (German Gunner); John Banner (German Workman / Conductor on empty troop train); Ludwig Hardt (Pharmacist); Jack Lomas (Magnus); Charles Flynn (Post Sentry); William von Brincken (als: William Vaughn) (Gate Sentry); Walter Bonn (Sentry); Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (Sentry); Sven-Hugo Borg (Mechanic); Roland Varno (Unteroffizier); Rolf Lindau (Sergeant) |
Length |
2948 m / 107'45'' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 00 Jan 1942-00 Apr 1942: Shooting period |
Further Remarks |
- Tonsystem: RCA |
Abstract |
A Royal Air Force bomber crew is shot down over German-occupied Poland. Eight men are in the plane, but only five survive the crash and subsequent travails. Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes and his men have no other choice but to sneak through Axis territory to make it back to Merry Olde. In the course of the picture, they are chased relentlessly by Nazi major Otto Baumeister, destroy a chemical factory, knock off several Germans, steal German uniforms, and masquerade as officers by pilfering Goering's car and taking it to an area near Berlin. A bomber is being prepared to attack London's water works, and Forbes and Johnny Hammond, the remaining members of the crew, steal the plane and fly across the channel. As he's about to land, Forbes says, "Now for Australia and a crack at those Japs!" |
Subject Terms |
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Holdings |
- Kinemathek Hamburg, Hamburg |
Bibliography |
- Crowther, Bosley: "'Desperate Journey', a Futile Chase Through Germany, With Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, Opens at the Strand", in: The New York Times, 26.09.1942 |