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.
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 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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