Lost indeed; this John Ford film has largely been forgotten and yet "The Lost Patrol" is a classic of its kind. The title says it all; a group of soldiers finds itself lost in the Mesopotamian desert, going mad or being picked off one by one by unseen Arabs. It's very much an actor's piece with Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford and Reginald Denny taking the lion's share of the honours, working from a very good Dudley Nichols screenplay. Of course, it could just as easily have been about a cavalry patrol in the American West and if had been perhaps its reputation might have been greater. It may not be one of Ford's masterpieces but it's still well worth seeing.
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