General Crack (novel)

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General Crack
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Author Marjorie Bowen
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreWar
Publisher The 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]

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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]

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References

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

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