The Grissom Gang is a remake of the well-known 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is abducted and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and also morons, as well as headed by Ma Barker duplicate Irene Dailey. Among the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his detainee, which results in a bloody failure of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang as well as the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were influenced by the record-breaker by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's initial ending.
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The Grissom Gang is a remake of the well-known 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is abducted and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and also morons, as well as headed by Ma Barker duplicate Irene Dailey. Among the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his detainee, which results in a bloody failure of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang as well as the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were influenced by the record-breaker by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's initial ending.
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