Lost Patrol (1929 film)

Lost Patrol
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;
Running time	7,250 feet
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.

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

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

Bibliography

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

External links

Lost Patrol at IMDb

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[1] Low p.402

[2] The Lost Patrol (1929) Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine at British Film Institute

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