The Lost Patrol (1934)

Directed by

John Ford

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 14m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 79 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British patrol in the Mesopotamian desert gets lost and is picked off one by one by unseen Arab snipers. The soldiers struggle to survive and hold their position as their numbers dwindle.

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What happens

The Lost Patrol is a 1934 American pre-Code war film by RKO, directed and produced by John Ford, with Merian C. Cooper as executive producer and Cliff Reid as associate producer from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols from the 1927 novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald. Max Steiner provided the Oscar-nominated score. The film, a remake of a 1929 British silent film, starred Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J. M. Kerrigan and Alan Hale. MacDonald's story, and the 1936 Soviet film The Thirteen (set in the Central Asia desert during the Basmachi rebellion and directed by Mikhail Romm), inspired the 1943 film Sahara, featuring Humphrey Bogart. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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