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Movie Info

Based on the novel by James Hadley Chase. A psychopathic kidnapper falls in love with his wealthy victim.

Genre:

mystery and thriller
Original Language:

English
Director:

St. John Legh Clowes
Runtime:

1h 42m
Production Co:

Renown

Cast & Crew

Jack LaRue
Slim Grisson

Hugh McDermott
Dave Fenner

Linden Travers
Miss Blandish

Walter Crisham
Eddie Schultz

Leslie Bradley
Ted Bailey

Zoe Gail
Margo

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Critic Reviews for No Orchids for Miss Blandish

All Critics (4) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (2)

Cold, calculating, and over-the-top with both its romantic entanglements and formulations of violence, it's a strangely masochistic film absent of any kind of audience investment, with a femme fatale who strangely lives up to her choice surname.

August 25, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
...one of the most inexplicable, poorly conceived, and even more poorly executed genre exercises of its time.

March 24, 2019 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…

Nathanael Hood
The Retro Set
It's this British movie's status as an ersatz 'American' gangster picture that makes it particularly distinctive; there's a not-quite-rightness about the production that gives it a dream-like, Bronte-via-'Black Mask' atmosphere.

August 17, 2010 | Rating: 3/4

John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Notorious in its day, this 1948 British adaptation of James Hadley Chase's novel is a noir-tinged crime drama with lurid edges and an American setting that never quite comes off...

May 29, 2010 | Full Review…

Sean Axmaker
Seanax.com