Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kim Darby | ... | Barbara Blandish | |
Scott Wilson | ... | Slim Grissom | |
Tony Musante | ... | Eddie Hagan | |
Robert Lansing | ... | Dave Fenner | |
Connie Stevens | ... | Anna Borg | |
Irene Dailey | ... | Gladys 'Ma' Grissom | |
Wesley Addy | ... | John P. Blandish | |
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Joey Faye | ... | Woppy |
Michael Baseleon | ... | Frankie Connor | |
Ralph Waite | ... | Mace | |
Hal Baylor | ... | Chief McLaine | |
Matt Clark | ... | Joe Bailey | |
Alvin Hammer | ... | Sam | |
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Dots Johnson | ... | Johnny Hutchins (as Dotts Johnson) |
Don Keefer | ... | Doc Grissom |
Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the British film No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948). Written by alfiehitchie
a better Patty Hearst movie than the ones actually made about Patty Hearst. not quite up there with the likes of Bonnie and Clyde and Thieves Like Us, but definitely worth seeing as an example of the 1970's ambivalence about anti-social characters and crime. the reviews make quite a big deal about the violence but you will hardly notice it--a great deal of shooting, some of that orange glop they used in the 1970s, but hardly emotionally wrenching like, say, The Wild Bunch or Texas Chainsaw Massacre...great performance by Scott Wilson who shows up on TV a lot these days.