Lost Patrol (1929 film)

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Lost Patrol
Directed by Walter Summers
Written by Philip MacDonald (novel)
Walter Summers
Produced by Harry Bruce Woolfe
Starring Cyril McLaglen
Sam Wilkinson
Terence Collier
Arthur B. Woods
Production
company
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date
February 1929
Running time
7,250 feet [1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Lost Patrol is a 1929 British silent war film directed by Walter Summers and starring Cyril McLaglen, Sam Wilkinson and Terence Collier. [2] 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.

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During the First World War, a hard-pressed British patrol in the deserts of Mesopotamia come under attack from the enemy. Gradually they are picked off one by one.

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References

  1. Low p.402
  2. The Lost Patrol (1929) Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine at British Film Institute

Bibliography

Lost Patrol at IMDb