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The Lost Patrol
UNITED STATES · 1934

The Lost Patrol

John Ford
desert survival military leadership World War I isolation psychological tension
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Synopsis

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

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