The Lost Patrol

Murder, as much by Max Steiner's oppressive (and Academy Award nominated) score as by unseen Arab gunmen, in the opening scene from John Ford's The Lost Patrol, 1934, starring Victor McLaglen.

The Sergeant (Victor McLaglen) holds a strategy session with the whole squad, leading to cheerful Hale (Billy Bevan) volunteering to climb a tree, in John Ford's The Lost Patrol, 1934.

The squad, led by "The Sergeant" (Victor McLaglen) at the oasis, in order, Brandon Hurst, Sammy Stein, Reginald Denny, J.M. Kerrigan, Boris Karloff, Douglas Watson, Paul Hanson, Alan Hale, in John Ford's The Lost Patrol, 1934.