📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Single Lady by John Monk Saunders

Summary:

A montage of World War I and Amer­icans in Paris in the 1920s,this novel by John Monk Saunders, author of Wings,is an almost perfect facsimile of the “lost generation” novel—a readable and revealing imitation of the moods of The Sun Also Rises.

Whether early Hemingway or vin­tage Hollywood, Single Lady is certain to surprise and delight readers today. As readers of this new edition will dis­cover, John Monk Saunders, a Rhodes Scholar and a highly successful screen­writer (The Dawn Patrol, A Yank at Oxford)peoples his landscape with memorable figures, and has an extraordinarily good ear for dialogue.

The story is this: five young ex-war­riors of the sky, Shepard Lambert, Bill Talbot, John Swann, Cary Lockwood, and The Washout, unable to let down from the high nervous pitch of flying and fighting, are adrift in Paris after the Armistice, and seemingly bent on self-destruction. They meet Nikki, who joins them in their spectacular journey through the bars of Paris, the cafés of Lisbon, and the bullring of Madrid, and who becomes part of their strangely disordered lives.

Four disillusioned World War I Army buddy veterans roam Paris, drinking and admiring a woman they recently met.

Release Date: August 29, 1931

Release Time: 76 minutes

Director: William Dieterle

Cast:

Richard Barthelmess as Cary Lockwood

David Manners as Shep Lambert

John Mack Brown as Bill Talbot

Helen Chandler as Nikki

Elliott Nugent as Francis

Walter Byron as Frink

Uncredited

Luis Alberni as Spectator at Bullfight

Herbert Bunston as Man on Train

Yola d'Avril as French Party Girl at Cafe

Jay Eaton as Man in Claridge Bar*

George Irving as Military doctor

Wallace MacDonald as Officer at Hospital

John Monk Saunders

John Monk Saunders was an American novelist, screenwriter and film director. He served in the Air Service during World War I as a flight instructor in Florida, but was never able to secure a posting to France, a disappointment that frustrated him for the remainder of his life. His screenwriting credits include Wings (1927), The Legion of the Condemned (1928), The Last Flight (1931) which he adapted from his own novel Single Lady, and the documentary film Conquest of the Air (UK, 1936), which he also co-directed. He died in 1940.

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