Watch No Orchids For Miss Blandish (1948) Free Online

Release Date: 1948

Cast: Charles Goldner

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Thriller, Gangster

No Orchids for Miss Blandish is a 1948 British gangster film adapted and directed by St. John Legh Clowes from a novel by James Hadley Chase. It starred Linden Travers, Jack La Rue, Walter Crisham, MacDonald Parke, Lilli Molnar and Hugh McDermott, with an unbilled early appearance from Sid James as a barman. The film, about a kidnapped heiress who falls in love with her abductor, caused enormous controversy on its release, because of the high levels of violence that had gotten past the film censors. Though made with a largely British cast, it was set in New York, with the actors often... MORE

No Orchids for Miss Blandish is a 1948 British gangster film adapted and directed by St. John Legh Clowes from a novel by James Hadley Chase. It starred Linden Travers, Jack La Rue, Walter Crisham, MacDonald Parke, Lilli Molnar and Hugh McDermott, with an unbilled early appearance from Sid James as a barman. The film, about a kidnapped heiress who falls in love with her abductor, caused enormous controversy on its release, because of the high levels of violence that had gotten past the film censors. Though made with a largely British cast, it was set in New York, with the actors often struggling with their American accents. (Ironically, the one American in the cast, LaRue, affected a slight Italian accent.) No Orchids for Miss Blandish received strong criticism for its treatment of violence and sexuality, with the Monthly Film Bulletin calling it "the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion, sex and sadism ever to be shown on a cinema screen". The Observer reviewer, C.A. Lejeune described the film as "this repellent piece of work" that "scraped up all the droppings of the nastier type of Hollywood movie". No Orchids for Miss Blandish was also denounced by the Bishop of LESS