Blistering sun... blazing bullets!
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 oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
- 6.5
- 1934
- Released
- 1h 13m
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
Sammy Stein
Abelson
Paul Hanson
MacKay
Howard Wilson
Aviator
Released
en
- #sniper
- #middle east
- #ambush
- #world war i
- #british army
- #desert oasis
- #patrol
- #desert
- #pre-code
- #mesopotamia
Reviews
When the commander of a desert patrol is shot leading his men on a secret mission, nobody left knows where they are supposed to be going but “Sgt. Quincannon” (was it a contractual obligation for Victor McLaglen’s character to be called that?) knows they have to find water and shelter soon. To that end, they head to an oasis where they settle for the night but in the morning discover their horses