Film

The Lost Patrol

Release year

1934

Synopsis

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.

Directed by

John Ford

Cast

Victor McLaglen
Boris Karloff
Wallace Ford
Reginald Denny
J.M. Kerrigan
Billy Bevan

Poster artist

Eric Rohman