The Singer Not the Song (novel)

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The Singer Not the Song
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Author Audrey Erskine Lindop
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
Publisher Heinemann (Britain)
Pocket Books (US)
Publication date
1953
Media typePrint

The Singer Not the Song is a 1953 novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. It was published in the United States by Pocket Books under the alternative title of The Bandit and the Priest. [1] A priest sent to a small Mexican town engages in a moral battle with a local bandit.

It was adapted into a 1961 film The Singer Not the Song directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Dirk Bogarde, John Mills and Mylène Demongeot. [2]

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References

  1. Vinson, James (1999). Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Walter de Gruyter. p. 253.
  2. Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 954.