Wings – John Monk Saunders

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FIRST EDITION THUS – A very good or better book based on the Paramount film (1927) starring Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Richard Arlen. Gary Cooper appears in a small role which helped launch his career in Hollywood.The film, a romantic action-war picture, was rewritten by scriptwriters Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton from a story by John Monk Saunders to accommodate Bow, Paramount’s biggest star at the time. Wellman was hired as he was the only director in Hollywood at the time who had World War I combat pilot experience, although Richard Arlen and John Monk Saunders had also served in the war as military aviators. The film was shot on location on a budget of $2 million. The original period dust wrapper is in near very good condition with a little loss to the spine tips, also with a chip, and a large closed tear to the top corner of the front flap fold. There is tape to the reverse of the dust wrapper that does not show through to the front panel. A very scarce uk novelisation of a famous World War One movie. Bookseller Inventory # 001384