Alan Hale, Billy Bevan, Boris Karloff, Brandon Hurst, Douglas Walton ...( see more  see more... ) , Howard Wilson , J.M. Kerrigan , Paul Hanson , Reginald Denny , Sammy Stein , Victor McLaglen , Wallace Ford

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's se...( read more  read more... )rgeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awake the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.

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Unrated, 73 min.

Directed by: John Ford

Release Date: February 16, 1934

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DVD Release Date: June 6, 2006

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  • March 2, 2008
    "the lost patrol" is one of the classic war flick on the theme of agoraphobia and survivalist trauma, directed by classic john ford who also takes the directional wheel of "the wrath of grapes" as well as a bunch of john wayne classics.

    "the lost patrol" is about the wwi army ...( read more)lurks over the mesopotomian desert for temporal ease of oasis then besieged by the clandestine aribian assassinators, then gradually soldiers die one by one that corners and alienates its remained survivors until merely the sergent himself is kept alive to defeat the arabian crooks. in a nutshell, "the lost patrol" is a dirge upon the trainsient lives of war soldiers as well as their reluctant solace and unbearable sorrows, an anti-war nihilism on the futility of war or the glorification on the solemn sacrifice of millions of soldiers??

    it might appear dry to some since it's mainly about dialogues of the characters' psychological interactions which delineates their mental states and also some primitive action scenes within the sequence of guerillas. two engrossing characters would be boris karloff's religious frantic who holds a giant cross of woodsticks to march torward the battlefield to make himself a myrtyr and victor mclaglen's sergeant who is a shattered widower living on the spared gleam of hopes for his son. the untimely rescue eventually feels like a preposterous mirage to deepen the sergeant's despair on the loss of numerous lives that contrarily thickens the simmering irony of war's fickleness.

    "the lost patrol" is a humanistic depiction upon the cruelty of war and its costy price on human blood.
  • January 24, 2009
    I guerra mundial, reflejar lo que cada personaje puede sentir al estar perdido en el desierto, los enfrentamientos que se producen entre ellos es un gran trabajo
  • July 18, 2008
    this looks pretty good i wouldnt mind seeing it
  • July 6, 2008
    nominated for best picture by NBR
  • June 10, 2008
    I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.
  • October 29, 2007
    One of his best acting rolls.

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