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The Grissom Gang

  • 19711971
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  • 2h 8m
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6.7/10
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The Grissom Gang (1971)
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.
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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 Or... Read allSet 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).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).
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
1.4K
YOUR RATING
    • Robert Aldrich
    • Leon Griffiths(screenplay)
    • James Hadley Chase(based on novel by "No Orchids for Miss Blandish")
  • Stars
    • Kim Darby
    • Scott Wilson
    • Tony Musante
    • Robert Aldrich
    • Leon Griffiths(screenplay)
    • James Hadley Chase(based on novel by "No Orchids for Miss Blandish")
  • Stars
    • Kim Darby
    • Scott Wilson
    • Tony Musante
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 22User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    Kim Darby
    Kim Darby
    • Barbara Blandish
    Scott Wilson
    Scott Wilson
    • Slim Grissom
    Tony Musante
    Tony Musante
    • Eddie Hagan
    Robert Lansing
    Robert Lansing
    • Dave Fenner
    Connie Stevens
    Connie Stevens
    • Anna Borg
    Irene Dailey
    Irene Dailey
    • Gladys 'Ma' Grissom
    Wesley Addy
    Wesley Addy
    • John P. Blandish
    Joey Faye
    • Woppy
    Michael Baseleon
    Michael Baseleon
    • Frankie Connor
    Ralph Waite
    Ralph Waite
    • Mace
    Hal Baylor
    Hal Baylor
    • Chief McLaine
    Matt Clark
    Matt Clark
    • Joe Bailey
    Alvin Hammer
    Alvin Hammer
    • Sam
    Dots Johnson
    Dots Johnson
    • Johnny Hutchins
    • (as Dotts Johnson)
    Don Keefer
    Don Keefer
    • Doc Grissom
    Mort Marshall
    Mort Marshall
    • Heinie
    Elliott Street
    Elliott Street
    • Gas Station Attendant
    Dave Willock
    Dave Willock
    • Rocky
      • Robert Aldrich
      • Leon Griffiths(screenplay)
      • James Hadley Chase(based on novel by "No Orchids for Miss Blandish")
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    • Trivia
      Director Robert Aldrich earned so much money off the back of his film The Dirty Dozen (1967) that he was able to buy his own film studio and make the kind of films he wanted to make. Unfortunately, the first three that he made independently (The Killing of Sister George (1968), The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968), and Too Late the Hero (1970)) were all box-office flops. When this movie also crashed and burned at the box office in 1971, Aldrich was forced to sell his studio and go back to being a director for hire.
    • Goofs
      Matt Clark is running away when he's killed by a knife in the back. When his killer turns him over his mouth is open showing a lot of teeth with fillings which wouldn't be likely in the 1920's.
    • Quotes

      Eddie Hagan: How come you never get your ass out of bed?

      Anna Borg: Well, it's the place you seem to like it the most.

    • Connections
      Featured in Scott Wilson: A Different Kind of Killer (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      I Can't Give You Anything but Love
      Written by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh

      Sung by Rudy Vallee

    User reviews22

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    9/10
    The best movie of the rural-America-gangster genre
    If a movie deserves the definition of hard-boiled, this is "Grissom Gang". The characters seem to know just a way to face any problem, either major or minor: kill, kill, kill. The setting in the rural, poor Midwest in the years of Depression is both evocative and grinding: it gives the audience a feeling of bleakness and unavoidable violence. The story is carefully constructed, exciting, full of suspense. The characters are very well shaped, much care is given to details. The direction by Aldrich is superb: the action scenes are beautifully filmed, the timing is admirable. In the development of the plot we don't find those failures of strain, digressions and intervals of bore which were so common in the movies of those years, under pretension of style. All the actors' performances are outstanding. Scott Wilson draws, with masterly acting, the extraordinary character of Slim Grissom. At first, he seems just a half-witted hooligan, but we quickly realize that he is the toughest of them all, looking at other characters' behavior: they are all scared of him, even his gang mates. Actually, the smart gangster Tony Musante seems to take fun in teasing the stupid Slim: but it is clear that this is by no means a good idea. Wilson's acting gives likelihood to Grissom's possessive, infantile, somewhat touching love for Miss Blandish (Kim Darby). He states that, to save her, he is ready to kill his own mother: we have already learned to never underestimate his words. Kim Darby deserves a special mention, in the role of the spoiled girl who learns to survive at all costs, sexual abuse included. She is great here, she was extraordinary in "True Grit": I wonder why she didn't become a major Hollywood star. Despite some minor faults, "Grissom Gang" is excellent, by far better, in my opinion, of other celebrated movies of the same rural-America-gangster genre, such as Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde", Altman's "Thieves like us", Corman's "Bloody Mama".
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    • Release date
      • May 29, 1971 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Aldrich Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • ABC Pictures
      • The Associates & Aldrich Company
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    • 2 hours 8 minutes
      • Mono

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