Own it: | Search for streaming:      | With: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J.M. Kerrigan, Billy Bevan, Alan Hale, Brandon Hurst, Douglas Walton, Sammy Stein, Howard Wilson, Paul Hanson
| Written by: Dudley Nichols, Garrett Fort, based on a story by Philip MacDonald
| Directed by: John Ford
| MPAA Rating: NR
| Running Time: 74
| | Date: 15/02/1934 | | | | Desert Trappings By Jeffrey M. Anderson Made at RKO on a budget, John Ford's 74-minute action film The Lost Patrol (1934) tells the story of a platoon stranded at an oasis in the Mesopotamian desert, surrounded by a (mostly) unseen band of marauding Arabs. Victor McLaughlin stars as the sergeant and Boris Karloff plays a wild-eyed religious nut. Ford and his longtime screenwriter Dudley Nichols center on character interaction and keep the action mainly off-camera for a startlingly tense film. |
