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.
Errol Flynn
Flight Lt. Terry Forbes
Ronald Reagan
Flight Officer Johnny Hammond
Arthur Kennedy
Flight Officer Jed Forrest
Alan Hale
Sgt. Kirk Edwards
Ronald Sinclair
Sgt. Lloyd Hollis
Raymond Massey
Major Otto Baumeister
Rudolph Anders
Kruse
Nancy Coleman
Kaethe Brahms
Albert Bassermann
Dr. Ludwig Mather
Sig Ruman
Preuss
Patrick O'Moore
Squad Leader Lane-Ferris
Ilka Grüning
Frau Brahms
Elsa Bassermann
Frau Raeder
Charles Irwin
Captain Coswick
Richard Fraser
Squadron Leader Clark
Henry Victor
Heinrich Schwarzmueller
Walter Brooke
Sgt. Warwick
Kurt Katch
Hesse
Harry Lewis
Evans
Otto Reichow
Pvt. Koenig
Director
Raoul Walsh
Screenplay
Arthur T. Horman
October 7, 2016
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Basically 'Errol Flynn vs. the Nazis, Round 1' Battleground: Germany
This experience was hampered for me by a freak situation in which either my flatscreen TV or my blu player, for the first time, didn't have any audio, so, nonplussed yet equally dauntless, I just said 'what the hell', put on the subtitles and watched the film with no audio. (Later, I discovered that I could have just unplugged both for ten minutes and everything would have been normal. You live, you learn. It taught me to pay more attention to what was happening on the screen, so it wasn't an entirely wasted endeavor.)
Here, the weakness, as always, was Ronald Reagan, who makes Keanu Reeves look like a great actor. Still, he wasn't bad (it was a war film, after all, with a role he was born to play), and he and Flynn were assisted by great supporting players, such as Raymond Massey and Alan Hale, who are always 'cash money' for me IMHO. As well, you have one of the greatest American directors of the period in Raoul Walsh, so it's basically win, win, win--except if you're a Nazi.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00