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Fans cheered and applauded Flynn's first appearance on the screen. Later, when he murmured dreamily of the Girl Back Home, they gave the wolf cry-a long-drawn woooo-woooo-ooo! When Flynn offered a fellow pilot "a few good telephone numbers," the house broke into a dionysiad of whistles, wolf calls, boos, belly laughter. This was not only true of San Francisco: at the end of many a showing of Desperate Journey, cinemaudiences have endorsed Cinemactor Flynn with loud & long applause. Probably unnecessary, in fact, is Warner Bros.' already famed deletion-from the Desperate Journey trailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popularity | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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