Rent No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
3.2 of 5 from 62 ratings
1h 39min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Virginal young heiress Miss Blandish (Linden Travers) is kidnapped by a couple of small time hoods, only to find herself seized from them by gangster Slim Grissom (Jack LaRue). He isn't just interested in her for the ransom money - and neither are the other members of the Grissom gang. Despite her terrifying ordeal, Miss Blandish finds herself perversely attracted to the gang leader. They plan to run off together, but amongst gangsters life is cheap - and a double cross is always just around the corner...
- Actors:
- Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham, MacDonald Parke, Danny Green, Lilli Molnar, Charles Goldner, Zoe Gail, Leslie Bradley, Richard Neilson, Michael Balfour, Frances Marsden, Jack Lester, Bill O'Connor, Irene Prador, Percy Marmont, John McLaren, Annette D. Simmonds, Jack Durant
- Directors:
- St. John Legh Clowes
- Producers:
- St. John Legh Clowes, A.R. Shipman
- Writers:
- James Hadley Chase, St. John Legh Clowes
- Aka:
- Black Dice
- Studio:
- DD Home Entertainment
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, Films to Watch If You Like..., Films to Watch if You Like: Get Carter, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Sidney James, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Robert Aldrich, Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s, Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1948, Top Films, What We Were Watching in 1971
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/05/2019
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Black Dice: alternative presentation with the US re-release title sequence
- Interview with Richard Gordon and Richard Nielson (2010, 35 mins): the film's US distributor and the actor in a filmed discussion with broadcaster Joel Blumberg
- Miss Blandish and the Censor (2019, 42 mins): ex-BBFC examiner Richard Falcon discusses the controversial film's history with the British Board of Film Censors
- Soldier, Sailor (1945, 50 mins): World War II docudrama, conceived by No Orchids for Miss Blandish's writer-director St John L Clowes
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Alternative Black Dice Trailer
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- UK premiere on Blu-ray
