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The Lost Patrol (1934)
In John Ford's bleak war/adventure drama set during
WWI, with a stirring Max Steiner musical score:
- the opening scene of a British patrol commander
shot by an unseen Arab sniper ("right through the lung")
and the fall off his horse; the "Sergeant" was angered:
("Blasted Arabs. Hide like sand-flies. Never see 'em")
- the "Sergeant"
(Victor McLaglen), now in charge, and his response to finding an abandoned
desert oasis with food and water: "And not a ghost of an idea
where we're at, what we're here for and where we're going"
- the drama as the members of the lost patrol were picked
off one-by-one by the hidden enemy, until only the Sergeant was left
- the sole-surviving and dazed Sergeant's mad machine-gunning
of a group of six Arab snipers, and wildly bragged to his fallen
comrades after killing them: ("We got 'em, I got 'em")
- the mirage-like appearance in the desert of a British
rescue column (a second rescue party) amidst the sand dunes
- in the memorable film ending of the Sergeant's rescue
by another British patrol, his silent answer to the Colonel's question: "Where
are your men? Speak up, man. Where's your section?" - the Sergeant
pointed to the gleaming row of sabers marking the heads of all the
graves of the men who had perished in his patrol group
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"Where are your men?"
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Graves Marked by Sabers
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British Commander Shot by Sniper
Commanding "Sergeant"
(Victor McLaglen)
Mad Machine-Gunning: "We got 'em, I got 'em"
Appearance of Rescue Column On Sand Dunes
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