The Single Girls

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The Single Girls
Thesinglegirlsposter.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Beverly Sebastian
Ferd Sebastian
Written byBeverly Sebastian (as "Ann Cawthorne")
Story byAnn Cawthorne
Produced byBeverly Sebastian
Ferd Sebastian
Starring Claudia Jennings
Greg Mullavey
Wayne C. Dvorak
CinematographyFerd Sebastian
Music by Peter J. Elliott
Production
company
Sebastian Films Limited
Distributed by Dimension Pictures
Release date
  • 28 March 1973 (1973-03-28) [1]
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$45,000 [2]

The Single Girls (also known as Bloody Friday and Private School) is a 1973 American exploitation film directed by Beverly Sebastian and Ferd Sebastian, and starring Claudia Jennings, Jean Marie Ingels and Greg Mullavey.

Contents

Ferd Sebastian said ". . . it was like a lot of the people were in the 70s. Searching for love in all the wrong places. It was meant to be a light, sexy show with a murderer on the loose." [2]

Plot

A group of men and women travel to a Caribbean resort to discover themselves sexually, but unfortunately one of them has also discovered that they like to murder people, too. [3]

Cast

Production

Ferd Sebastian said this was the first film he made with his wife that "we had a crew on. We added a sound man, boom man and a gaffer." [2]

The film was shot in two main locatiosn - interiors at the Westlake Inn, Westlake Village, with all other locations were at Paradice Cove, in Malibu. [2]

Soundtrack

The film features "Ms. America," co-written and performed by Bobby Hart of the Monkees fame. [4]

Trivia

This film was made before 'Gator Bait (1973), which also starred the 1970 Playboy "Playmate of the Year" Claudia Jennings, but was released a year later. The Sebastians and Jennings became close friends while making The Single Girls and Jennings asked the Sebastians to write a film for her. That film was 'Gator Bait. [5]

See also

References

  1. "Starts Wednesday". The Courier. 25 March 1973. p. 41.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Loose talk loses lives - interview with Ferd Sebastian". Hysteria Lives.
  3. "The Single Girls logline". IMDb.com.
  4. "The Single Girls soundtrack". IMDB.com.
  5. "Gator Bait trivia". IMDb.com.