The Lost Patrol (1934 film)
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The Lost Patrol is a 1934 American pre-Code war film by RKO, directed and produced by John Ford, with Merian C. Cooper as executive producer and Cliff Reid as associate producer from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols from the 1927 novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald. Max Steiner provided the Oscar-nominated score. The film, a remake of a 1929 British silent film,[2] starred Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J. M. Kerrigan and Alan Hale.[Note 1]
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Directed by | John Ford |
Screenplay by | Garrett Fort Dudley Nichols |
Based on | Patrol 1927 novel by Philip MacDonald |
Produced by | Merian C. Cooper Cliff Reid John Ford |
Starring | Victor McLaglen Boris Karloff Wallace Ford Reginald Denny |
Cinematography | Harold Wenstrom |
Edited by | Paul Weatherwax |
Music by | Max Steiner |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $262,000[1] |
Box office | $583,000[1] |
MacDonald’s story, and the 1936 Soviet film The Thirteen (set in the Central Asia desert during the Basmachi rebellion and directed by Mikhail Romm), inspired the 1943 film Sahara, featuring Humphrey Bogart.