Sabotage order Berlin

Movie
German title	Sabotage order Berlin
Original title	Desperate Journey
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1942
length	107 minutes
Rod
Director	Raoul Walsh
script	Arthur T. Horman
production	Hal B. Wallis
music	Max Steiner , ; Hugo Friedhofer
camera	Bert Glennon
cut	Rudi Fehr
occupation
	Errol Flynn : Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes; Ronald Reagan : Flying Officer Johnny Hammond; Nancy Coleman : Kaethe Brahms; Raymond Massey : Major Otto Baumeister; Alan Hale : Flight Sgt. Kirk Edwards; Arthur Kennedy : Flying Officer Jed Forrest; Ronald Sinclair : Flight Sgt.Lloyd Hollis II; Felix Basch : Hermann Brahms; Ilka Grüning : Mrs. Brahms; Else Bassermann : Mrs. Raeder; Louis V. Arco : Sergeant Gertz; Hans Schumm : Gestapo agent; Leslie Denison : Radio Operator; Albert Bassermann : Dr. Mather;

Sabotage Order Berlin (Original: Desperate Journey ) is a war and anti-Nazi propaganda film from 1942 . The main characters in the film, directed by Raoul Walsh , are Errol Flynn and the later American President Ronald Reagan .

action

The film reports on the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber who are supposed to bomb a strategically important target on Germany's eastern border. The aircraft is damaged in the attack and crash-lands. Only five of the eight men survived her and the subsequent hardships. Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes and his men have no choice but to find an escape route to England across Axis territory. In the course of the film they are mercilessly by Wehrmacht - Major Otto chased builder. They take out several pursuers, disguise themselves in their uniforms and get into Göring's train wagon as far as the vicinity of Berlin. You manage to destroy a chemical plant. Then they come to the occupied Netherlands via Münster. A bomber is being prepared for take-off there and is supposed to fly an attack on the London waterworks. The remaining three members of the crew, including Forbes and Hammond, seize the plane and fly over the canal. As he is about to land, Forbes says: "Now for Australia and a crack at those Japs!"

Reviews

"The film consists of a chain of stupid episodes with even more stupid dialogues, and even the listless staging is not designed to secure lasting interest."

- Lexicon of international film

“Adventurous war film with understandable propaganda features. A work of involuntary comedy "

- Heyne Film Lexicon (1996)

Oscar nomination

Byron Haskin and Nathan Levinson were nominated for an Oscar in 1943 for Best Visual Effects .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ sabotage order Berlin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 15, 2017 .

[1] sabotage order Berlin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 15, 2017 .