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The Singer Not the Song (novel)

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The Singer Not the Song
First edition
AuthorAudrey Erskine Lindop
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherHeinemann (Britain)
Pocket Books (US)
Publication date
1953
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
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]

References

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  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.