And the final nail in the coffin of Aldrich Studios was 1971’s The Grissom Gang, an adaptation of famed UK noir writer James Hadley Chase’s No Orchids for Miss Blandish. The film is an underrated gangster classic, which takes St. John Legh Clowes’ original film and brings it into the sweaty forefront of the New American Cinema style. Strong performances and the heightened psychosexual undertones of the novel’s text makes this a much grittier example of the Lima Syndrome which is at the crux of the film’s narrative.…...
- 1/15/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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