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Lost Patrol (1929)

Lost Patrol poster
Original title
The Lost Patrol
Directed by
Walter Summers
Genre
silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 21m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of British soldiers becomes lost in the desert after their commanding officer is killed. The men must survive the harsh landscape and avoid enemy attacks as they try to find their way back to their own lines.

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What happens

Lost Patrol is a 1929 British silent war film directed by Walter Summers and starring Cyril McLaglen, Sam Wilkinson and Terence Collier. The film was made at Welwyn Studios by British Instructional Films. It was based on the 1927 novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald. It was remade in 1934 by John Ford. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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