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    No Orchids for Miss Blandish
    (1948)
    SHOCKING as a book! SENSATIONAL as a motion picture!
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    Stars: Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham, MacDonald Parke
    Director: St. John Legh Clowes
    Writer: St. John Legh Clowes
    Language: English
    Studio: Indicator Series
    Duration: 104
    Rated: NR
    DVD Release: June 2019

    Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress (Linden Travers) 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 (Richard Nielson) kills the bridegroom. More mayhem ensues as the three kidnappers soon end up dead.

    Jack La RueSlim Grisson
    Hugh McDermottDave Fenner
    Linden TraversMiss Blandish
    Walter CrishamEddie Schultz
    MacDonald ParkeDoc (as Macdonald Parke)
    Danny GreenFlyn
    Lilli MolnarMa Grisson (as Lilly Molnar)
    Charles GoldnerLouis--Headwaiter
    Zoe GailMargo (as Zoë Gail)
    Leslie BradleyTed Bailey
    Richard NielsonRiley (as Richard Nelson)
    Michael BalfourBarney
    Frances MarsdenAnna Borg
    Jack LesterPolice Capt. Brennan
    Bill O'ConnorJohnny
    Irene PradorOlga--Johnny's Girl
    Percy MarmontJohn Blandish
    John McLarenFoster Harvey
    Annette D. SimmondsCutie--Club Hostess (as Annette Simmons)
    Jack DurantNightclub Comic
    HalamaSpecialty Act (as Halama and Konarski)
    C. KonarskiSpecialty Act (as Halama and Konarski)
    ToySpecialty Act (as Toy and Wyng)
    WingSpecialty Act (as Toy and Wyng)
    Bart Normanuncredited
    Walter Gotelluncredited
    Sid Jamesuncredited
    Harold Kasketuncredited
    Dale MacDonalduncredited
    Gibb McLaughlinuncredited
    George MinterExecutive Producer
    George MelachrinoOriginal Music Composer
    Gerald GibbsDirector of Photography
    Manuel del CampoEditor
    James Hadley ChaseBook
    Bernard LewisCamera Operator
    Richard NeilsonRiley (as Richard Nelson)
    Genre: Crime
    Media: Blu-ray
    Sound: Mono
    IMDb: 0040647