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Budget. $800,000 [1] 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 ...
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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- 1948-04-15
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 in 1948 it became a British ...
With the help of an American slang dictionary and books on the criminal world of America he wrote his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, over six weekends. Published in 1939 the book become one of the best-sold books of the decade. It was made into a play and was filmed in 1948 by a British film crew.
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Miss Blandish. Walter Crisham. Eddie Schultz. Leslie Bradley. Ted Bailey. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Based on the novel by James Hadley Chase. A psychopathic kidnapper falls ...
- Mystery & Thriller
- Jack La Rue
- St. John Legh Clowes
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No Orchids For Miss Blandish -- (Movie Clip) Take The Rap And Like It After 30-minutes of talk about him, Slim (Jack LaRue) appears, taking custody of Miss Blandish (Linden Travers), eliminating lesser thug Bailey (Leslie Bradley), in the British faux-American gangster hit No Orchids For Miss Blandish, 1948.
