"Under Two Flags" by Ouida (Louisa De La Rame), special film edition published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, undated [1936], no copyright, the only statement-- "Printed in the United States of America."

Hard boards, original red cloth with black lettering on front board and spine [very little wear and soiling]; 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; the endpapers are stills from the film + 3 stills on glossy paper including frontispiece, 601 pages; very good condition."Under Two Flags" is a 1936 American adventure romance film based on the novel of the same name by Ouida and directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell. The film, a mixture of action and melodrama, was widely popular with audiences of its time.

"Under Two Flags" (1867) was a best-selling novel by Ouida. The most famous of her books, it tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign Legion.

The novel is about The Hon. Bertie Cecil (nicknamed Beauty of the Brigades). In financial distress because of his own profligacy and the loss of an important horse-race on which he has bet extensively, and falsely accused of forgery, but unable to defend himself against the charge without injuring the "honour" of a lady and also exposing his younger brother (the real culprit), Cecil fakes his own death and exiles himself to Algeria where he joins the Chasseurs d'Afrique, a regiment comprising soldiers from various countries, rather like the French Foreign Legion.

After Cecil's great childhood friend and the friend's beautiful sister show up in Africa, and after a series of melodramatic self-sacrifices by Cecil and by the young girl Cigarette, a "child of the Army" who sacrifices her life saving Cecil from a firing squad, the main conflicts are resolved and the surviving characters return to England to fortune, title, and love.

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