Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sick to death with the sex lives of highly polished morons as is the present reviewer, you will like the "Lost Patrol." It is, as advertised, a desert picture, a fact which may call up a few unpleasant ghosts. But, be advised, there are no women getting in the way, there are no beturbaned sheiks mouthing fury into their ratty whiskers. The "Lost Patrol" is the plain story of how eleven soldiers out of twelve in a British horse troop met their deaths in Mesopotamia, 1916. And, thanks be to somebody or other, the movies have discovered that simplicity...
...death in this movie. Death opens and closes the covers of the story; it is in fact, the all pervading, the only certain, element. Yet it strikes always swiftly, always surely, always, as such things go, with an impressive lack of fuss. The troop is winding along the desert; the lieutenant in command is shot down from ambush, and with him to the grave, go the men's orders and geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed, the horses are gone...
...savage menace of the desert with its blazing sun and blinding sandstorms, and the varied emotions of eleven men facing inevitable death at the hands of unseen enemies, are woven into "The Lost Patrol", a powerful screen play with Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale and other distinguished film luminaries. The story deals with a detachment of British cavalrymen who become aimless wanderers on the Mesopotamian desert when their officer is killed by Arabs. Only the officer knew where they were, what their orders were and when and where they were to rejoin their brigade. That knowledge died...
...Husbands desert their wives for lighter frays, liquors saturate the veins of these hardy Americans, and they occasionally gather to talk over business in a disorderly fashion. The president is a smug person who speaks of his respect for morals and is later discovered by one of his employees leaving the house of a certain madame who is a flea exterminator; the employee is immediately remunerated by receiving a much higher position in the company.... Sinclair Lewis might have written a similar story ten years ago; the satire is always obvious and amusing. There are several plots, all rather involved...
...aviation industry worth mentioning. The Army and Navy did all the flying. In 1925 the Government awarded its first airmail contract to a private operator. A year later came the Air Commerce Act, and the beginnings of an airway system. Landing fields were hewn out of desert and mountain land. Beacon lights blossomed amid snow-capped peaks. The mail went through, at $3 a pound, with the pilot sitting on a parachute. Now and then, when a certain St. Louis mail pilot came roaring in with capers which today would bring instant dismissal, the Chicago field manager would shout: "Bellies...