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Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, War
Release Year: 1934
Country: USA
Runtime: 66
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: John Ford
Sound: Mono
Taglines:The Twelve Foot Ape Befriended them On the Island of King Kong! SEE! The cannibals! The earthquake! The sea serpent! The fighting monsters of ages past! Laughs! Thrills! Pathos!
Writing by: Garrett Fort - adaptation
Philip MacDonald - story "Patrol"
Dudley Nichols - screenplay
Produced by: Merian C. Cooper - executive producer
Cliff Reid - associate producer
John Ford - producer (uncredited)
Cast: Victor McLaglen - The Sergeant
Boris Karloff - Sanders
Wallace Ford - Morelli
Reginald Denny - George Brown
J.M. Kerrigan - Quincannon
Billy Bevan - Herbert Hale
Alan Hale - Matlow Cook
Brandon Hurst - Cpl. Bell
Douglas Walton - Pearson
Sammy Stein - Abelson
Howard Wilson - Aviator
Music: Max Steiner
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during world war I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
Plot: A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrols sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awake the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The cast credits in the opening titles identify the character played by "Helen Mack" as Hilda, but nowhere in the story itself is she given a name other than her stage billing of "La Belle Helene."
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: As the plane is circling the encampment, you can see tire marks in the sand.
Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Adventure, War
Release Year: 1934
Country: USA
Runtime: 66
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: John Ford
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Garrett Fort - adaptation
Philip MacDonald - story "Patrol"
Dudley Nichols - screenplay
Produced by: Merian C. Cooper - executive producer
Cliff Reid - associate producer
John Ford - producer (uncredited)
Cast: Victor McLaglen - The Sergeant
Boris Karloff - Sanders
Wallace Ford - Morelli
Reginald Denny - George Brown
J.M. Kerrigan - Quincannon
Billy Bevan - Herbert Hale
Alan Hale - Matlow Cook
Brandon Hurst - Cpl. Bell
Douglas Walton - Pearson
Sammy Stein - Abelson
Howard Wilson - Aviator
Music: Max Steiner
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during world war I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
Plot: A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrols sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awake the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The cast credits in the opening titles identify the character played by "Helen Mack" as Hilda, but nowhere in the story itself is she given a name other than her stage billing of "La Belle Helene."
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: As the plane is circling the encampment, you can see tire marks in the sand.
Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Victor McLaglen, who plays The Sergeant, is the brother of Cyril McLaglen, who played The Sergeant in the earlier 1929 version of this film.
- McLaglen actually served with the Irish Fusiliers in Mesopatamia (Modern Iraq) during World War I at the same time this story takes place. He eventually rose to be Provost Martial of Baghdad.
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