The Single Girls

{{Short description|1973 American film by Beverly Sebastian and Ferd Sebastian}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = The Single Girls | image = Thesinglegirlsposter.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Beverly Sebastian<br>Ferd Sebastian | producer = Beverly Sebastian<br>Ferd Sebastian | writer = Beverly Sebastian (as "Ann Cawthorne") |story=Ann Cawthorne | narrator = | starring = Claudia Jennings<br>Greg Mullavey<br>Wayne C. Dvorak | music = Peter J. Elliott | cinematography = Ferd Sebastian | editing = |studio = Sebastian Films Limited | distributor = Dimension Pictures | released = {{Film date|1973|03|28|ref1=<ref>{{cite news|title=Starts Wednesday|newspaper=The Courier|date=25 March 1973|page=41}}</ref>|df=y}} | runtime = 83 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget =$45,000<ref name="hyst"/> | gross = }}

'''''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."<ref name="hyst"/>

==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.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Single Girls logline |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070697/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1 |website=IMDb.com}}</ref>

==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."<ref name="hyst">{{cite web|url=https://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/hysterialives/Hysteria/loose_talk_loses_lives_40.htm|website=Hysteria Lives|title=Loose talk loses lives - interview with Ferd Sebastian}}</ref>

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.<ref name="hyst"/>

==Soundtrack== The film features "Ms. America," co-written and performed by Bobby Hart of the Monkees fame.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Single Girls soundtrack |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070697/soundtrack/?ref_=tt_dyk_snd |website=IMDB.com}}</ref>

==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''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gator Bait trivia |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070697/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv |website=IMDb.com}}</ref>

==See also== *List of American films of 1974

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0070697}} *[https://letterboxd.com/film/the-single-girls/ ''The Single Girls''] at Letterbox DVD *[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/55098-THE-SINGLE-GIRLS?cxt=filmography ''The Single Girls''] at AFI

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