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.
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."
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.
Cast Claudia Jennings as Allison Jean Marie Ingels as Phyllis Cheri Howell as Shannon (as Chéri Howell) Joan Prather as Lola Greg Mullavey as George Edward Blessington as Bud (as Ed Blessington) Victor Izay as Andrew Wayne C. Dvorak as Dr. Phillip Stevens (as Wayne Dvorek) Albert Popwell as Morris Jason Ledger as Blue Merci Montello as Cathy (as Mercy Rooney) Robyn Hilton as Denise
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."
The film was shot in two main locations: interiors at the Westlake Inn, Westlake Village, with all other locations were at Paradise Cove, in Malibu.
Soundtrack The film features "Ms. America," co-written and performed by Bobby Hart of the Monkees fame.
Trivia This film was made before 'Gator Bait (1973), which also starred the 1970 Playboy "Playmate of the Year" Claudia Jennings. 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.
See also List of American films of 1974
References
External links
The Single Girls at Letterbox DVD The Single Girls at AFI