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No Orchids for Miss Blandish (US re-release title Black Dice) is a 1948 British gangster film adapted and directed by St. John Legh Clowes from the 1939 novel of the same name by James Hadley Chase. [2][3] It stars Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, and Linden Travers (reprising her title role from the West End play by Chase and Robert Nesbitt), with ...
No Orchids for Miss Blandish: Directed by St. John Legh Clowes. With Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham. John Blandish is worth $100 million. His heiress daughter is soon to be wed to Foster Harvey, who believes she's a cold, unfeeling woman, despite loving her. Her cold emotional state is in large part due to leading a restricted life. A low level thug named Johnny ...
No Orchids for Miss Blandish: Directed by St. John Legh Clowes. With Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham. John Blandish is worth $100 million.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- St. John Legh Clowes
- 1948-04-15
Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress 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 kills the bridegroom. More mayhem ensues as the three kidnappers soon end up dead. St. John Legh ...
No Orchids For Miss Blandish. No Orchids For Miss Blandish was originally a 1939 novel by James Hadley Chase that in 1942 was adapted into a stage play which ran in London. The narrative is set in Kansas City in 1936, where wealthy heiress Miss Blandish is attacked by a gang who want the diamonds she has received for her 21st birthday.
Cover of the first edition. No Orchids for Miss Blandish is a 1939 crime novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase. [1] It was a critical and commercial success upon release, though it also provoked considerable controversy due to its explicit depiction of sexuality and violence. [2] In 1942, the novel was adapted into a stage play [3] and ...
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Based on the novel by James Hadley Chase. A psychopathic kidnapper falls in love with his wealthy victim. Cold, calculating, and over-the-top with both its romantic ...
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