About
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...
Cast
Victor McLaglen
The Sergeant
Boris Karloff
Sanders
Wallace Ford
Morelli
Reginald Denny
Brown
J. M. Kerrigan
Quincannon
Billy Bevan
Hale
Alan Hale
Cook
Brandon Hurst
Bell
Douglas Walton
Pearson
Keywords
british army world war i desert ambush sniper middle east pre-code oasis patrol mesopotamia
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Awards
Oscar nomination for Best Music, Score Max Steiner