No Orchids for Miss Blandish

Apr 15, 1948

1h 44m

★ 6.1

SHOCKING as a book! SENSATIONAL as a motion picture!

Overview

A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Tudor-Alliance

No Orchids for Miss Blandish Trailers

Cast

Slim Grisson

Jack La Rue

Dave Fenner

Hugh McDermott

Miss Blandish

Linden Travers

Eddie Schultz

Walter Crisham

Doc (as Macdonald Parke)

MacDonald Parke

Flyn

Danny Green

Ma Grisson (as Lilly Molnar)

Lilli Molnar

Louis--Headwaiter

Charles Goldner

Margo (as Zoë Gail)

Zoe Gail

Ted Bailey

Leslie Bradley

Riley (as Richard Nelson)

Richard Nielson

Barney

Michael Balfour

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