No Orchids for Miss Blandish

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

1948 · 104 min · EN · 6.1 (20 votes)
Dir. St. John Legh Clowes · Starring Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham, MacDonald Parke, Danny Green · Music George Melachrino

SHOCKING as a book! SENSATIONAL as a motion picture!

Crime

Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods, in what starts out as a jewel robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them kills the bridegroom. More mayhem ensues as the three kidnappers soon end up dead.

VIBE

A grim, unforgiving descent into the criminal underworld. This British noir offers a bleak, violent look at desperation and greed, where every turn leads to more mayhem and moral compromise.

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