The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol (1934) is a action, war film directed by John Ford rated 6.5/10.

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.

Cast

Victor McLaglen

The Sergeant

Boris Karloff

Sanders

Wallace Ford

Morelli

Reginald Denny

Brown

J.M. Kerrigan

Quincannon

Billy Bevan

Hale

Alan Hale

Cook

Brandon Hurst

Bell

Douglas Walton

Pearson

Sammy Stein

Abelson

Paul Hanson

MacKay

Howard Wilson

Aviator