General Crack (novel)

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General Crack
File:General Crack (novel).jpg
AuthorMarjorie Bowen
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreWar
PublisherThe Bodley Head
Publication date
1928
Media typePrint

General Crack is a 1928 historical novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under her pen name of George Preedy.[1]

Film adaptation

In 1929, it was adapted into a Hollywood film of the same title directed by Alan Crosland. Produced as an early talkie during the conversion from silent film it starred John Barrymore, Lowell Sherman and Marian Nixon.[2]

References

  1. ^ Tibbetts p.199
  2. ^ Goble p.375

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Tibbetts, John C. The Furies of Marjorie Bowen. McFarland, 2019.