Lost Patrol (1929 film)

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	British Instructional Films
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	February 1929 (1929-02)
Running time	7,250 feet [1]
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	Silent 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.

Synopsis

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.

Reception

In 1929, a critical statement from Time magazine concluded, "It is too bad that this heat, or something, made director Walter Summers, known for his competent war newsreels, mess up this opportunity." ^[3]

Cast

• Cyril McLaglen as The Sergeant
• Sam Wilkinson as Sanders
• Terence Collier as Corporal Bell
• Arthur B. Woods as Lieutenant Hawkins
• Hamilton Keene as Morelli
• Fred Dyer as Abelson
• Charles Emerald as Hale
• Andrew McMaster as Brown
• James Watts as Cook
• John Valentine as Mackay

References

1. Low p.402
2. The Lost Patrol (1929) Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine at British Film Institute
3. Cinema: The New Pictures - December 30, 1929, Time, 30 December 1929, retrieved 31 December 2024

Bibliography

• Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.

External links

• Lost Patrol at IMDb