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The Lost Patrol is a British film of genre War directed by Walter Summers released in USA on 15 december 1929 with Arthur B. Woods

The Lost Patrol (1929)

The Lost Patrol
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Released in USA 15 december 1929
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Genres War
Rating61% 3.08013.08013.08013.08013.0801

Lost Patrol is a 1929 British silent war film directed by Walter Summers and starring Cyril McLaglen, Sam Wilkinson and Terence Collier. 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.

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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.

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Arthur B. Woods

(Hawkins)
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