Orwell further notes that " No Orchids for Miss Blandish " is written in the American language and that many people were under the impression that it was an American book . " Evidently there are great numbers of English people who are partly Americanised in language, and one ought to add, in moral outlook.
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Set in 1949, the novella tells the story of Honor?Lechasseur, an ex-GI who is living and working in London as a spiv . He is hired by a woman claiming to be Emily Blandish to track down her husband, the Doctor, and soon becomes embroiled in the machinations of a Nazi named Walken and a mysterious woman named Mestizer.
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Modern critics hold the film in a slightly higher regard, with " TimeOut " saying " For one thing, the eponymous family, who kidnap'30s heiress Miss Blandish, are never glamorised but portrayed as a pathetic, ignorant bunch of grotesques; for another, as the petulant and spoilt heroine turns the sadistic and murderous Slim Grissom's love for her to her own cruelly humilating purposes, the film becomes an unsentimental exploration of perverse power-games played between two characters whose very different family backgrounds cannot conceal the latent vulnerability they both share ."
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The British film journal " Monthly Film Bulletin " called it, " . . the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion, sex and sadism ever to be shown on a cinema screen . " The Australian newspaper " The Age " also gave a harsh review : " " No Orchids for Miss Blandish " is not only a disgrace to the studio that made it, but it also reflects on the British industry as a whole . . . the entire production is unpardonable . " Cliff Goodwin, discussing " No Orchids For Miss Blandish's " initial reception, notes it was " unanimously dubbed'the worst film ever made'."
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The British film journal " Monthly Film Bulletin " called it, " . . the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion, sex and sadism ever to be shown on a cinema screen . " The Australian newspaper " The Age " also gave a harsh review : " " No Orchids for Miss Blandish " is not only a disgrace to the studio that made it, but it also reflects on the British industry as a whole . . . the entire production is unpardonable . " Cliff Goodwin, discussing " No Orchids For Miss Blandish's " initial reception, notes it was " unanimously dubbed'the worst film ever made'."
