| Lost Patrol | |
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| 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 | |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 7,250 feet[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | Silent Englishintertitles |
Lost Patrol is a 1929 Britishsilentwar film directed byWalter Summers and starringCyril McLaglen, Sam Wilkinson and Terence Collier.[2]
The film was made atWelwyn Studios byBritish Instructional Films. It was based on the 1927 novelPatrol byPhilip MacDonald. It wasremade in 1934 byJohn Ford.
During theFirst World War, a hard-pressed British patrol in the deserts ofMesopotamia come under attack from the enemy. Gradually they are picked off one by one.
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]
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