The Lost Patrol (1934 film)

For other uses, see The Lost Patrol (disambiguation).
The Lost Patrol
Original theatrical poster
Directed byJohn Ford
Screenplay byGarrett Fort
Dudley Nichols
Based onPatrol
1927 novel
by Philip MacDonald
Produced byMerian C. Cooper
Cliff Reid
John Ford
StarringVictor McLaglen
Boris Karloff
Wallace Ford
Reginald Denny
CinematographyHarold Wenstrom
Edited byPaul Weatherwax
Music byMax Steiner
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • February 16, 1934 (1934-02-16)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$262,000[1]
Box office$583,000[1]

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]

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.

  1. ^ a b Jewel, Richard. "RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1994, p. 56.
  2. ^ Pallot and Monaco 1995, p. 499.


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