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Star Movie: The Lost Patrol

on BBC One London

[Starring] Victor McLaglen
with Boris Karloff

Mesopotamia 1917: a small group of British cavalrymen are lost in the desert, following the death of their one remaining officer. The men, led by a sergeant, are gradually decimated by Arab snipers, or driven to insanity and hallucinations by the scorching sun and lack of water. Yet their fellow cavalrymen cannot be far away...
(Black and white)
Films: page 16

Contributors

Screenplay:
Dudley Nichols
Screenplay:
Garrett Ford
From the novel "Patrol" by:
Philip MacDonald
Producer:
Merian C. Cooper
Director:
John Ford
Sergeant:
Victor McLaglen
Sanders:
Boris Karloff
Morelli:
Wallace Ford
Brown:
Reginald Denny
Quincannon:
J.M. Kerrigan
Hale:
Billy Bevan
Cook:
Alan Hale
Bell:
Brandon Hurst
Pearson:
Douglas Walton
Abelson:
Sammy Stein

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