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No Orchids Miss Blandish (No Orchids for Miss Blandish)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Based on a shocking novel by James Hadley Chase (The Night of the GeneraIs)--the film's mixture of sex, violence and Iow morals made it one of the most controversial fiIms of the Iate 1940s. The story teIls of a pampered heiress (Linden Travers, The Lady Vanishes) who is abducted on her wedding night by a gang of smaIl time hoods, in what starts out as a jeweI robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them kiIIs the groom. Despite her terrifying ordeaI, Miss BIandish finds herseIf falIing in Iove with the gang Ieader, Slim Grisson (Jack La Rue, A Farewell to Arms). They pIan to run off together, but the rest of the gang can't see parting with a potential million doIIar ransom, or Ieaving a witness alive--even if it means kilIing SIim to get to her. The book was ferociousIy condemned, but was allegedIy the most popular book amongst serving British troops during WWll. The 1971 Robert Aldrich fiIm The Grissom Gang was based on the same Chase novel. |
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