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By May 23, 2009No Comments

Patrol

Boris Karloff in The Lost Patrol, John Ford, 1934

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  • vadim says:
    May 24, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Well. I’ve seen it at least. This lack of com­ments unnerves me. I’m not crazy about this movie though.

  • Michael Dempsey says:
    May 24, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    This image shows Boris Karloff as Sanders, a man crazed with ter­ror and fun­da­ment­al­ist reli­gious fan­at­icism who con­stantly rebukes his fel­low sol­dies in “The Lost Patrol” in plaint­ive tones for their “blas­phemy,” which amounts to some mild pro­fan­ity and light banter about dark-skinned women with whom they’ve dallied.
    Many find Karloff hammy here, and so he is, but the ham­mi­ness matches the char­ac­ter­iz­a­tion to a T and makes Sanders the most elec­tri­fy­ing of the men.
    His finale in the image above shows him yield­ing at long last to an inef­fable vis­ion of beatif­ic bliss, absorbed in a private bound-for-glory rhaps­ody until hid­den snipers shoot him down.
    This shot, one of Ford’s most vivid, has found echoes in the deaths of Jeremy Irons’ devoted Jesuit in “The Mission” and Al Pacino’s insane Tony Montana in Brian De Palma’s “Scarface.”

  • vadim says:
    May 24, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    Actually, what Dempsey’s com­ment reminds me is that this movie’s (pretty over-the-top in my opin­ion) savaging of Christian mania is, like, waaaaay stronger and more adam­ant than any­thing pro­duced nowadays, and I’m shocked all con­cerned got away with it. It’s the kind of movie I’d like to show some of those right-wing whiners who claim that old Hollywood was all about piety and good mor­als and now we’re in some kind of degen­er­ate phase. This movie gives the lie to that.
    But yeah, it’s still kind of a mess of a movie.

  • John Warthen says:
    May 25, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    Showing late tonight on TCM.

  • Paul says:
    May 31, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    Oh shit, I love this film, and I love to show it to people who think (hav­ing read it so many times they believe it to be true) that Assault on Precinct 13 is clearly based on Rio Bravo. It’s not, it’s The Lost Patrol in the hood. Carpenter is to be thanked for steer­ing people towards Hawks, it worked for me at least, but I still remem­ber the shock of see­ing this on after­noon TV back in the ’90s and real­ising – he lied!

  • UK dissertations says:
    June 20, 2009 at 6:22 am

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