Lost Patrol (1929 film)

Lost Patrol
Directed by Walter Summers
Produced by Harry Bruce Woolfe
Written by Philip MacDonald (novel)
Walter Summers
Starring Cyril McLaglen
Sam Wilkinson
Terence Collier
Arthur B. Woods
Production
company
British Instructional Films
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release dates
February 1929
Running time
7,250 feet[1]
Country United Kingdom
Language 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

References

  1. Low p.402
  2. The Lost Patrol (1929) at British Film Institute

Bibliography

External links

Lost Patrol at the Internet Movie Database

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