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The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids for Miss Blandish were
May 28, 1971 Wide
Nov 2, 2004
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It works best as a complex macabre black comedy on family relations.
It's certainly a wonderfully entertaining and well-crafted movie that plays perhaps better today than it did in 1971.
Subtly was not director Robert Aldrich's style. He saw things in very simple, blunt terms, and did not shy away from what other film makers might consider crude or over the top. When his films work, the punch to the gut knocks the breath out of you. THE GRISSOM GANG works like crazy. This backwoods gangster pic, set
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September 18, 2006
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