robert aldrich brutal and quasi black comedy the grissom gang and a reworking of the 1948 british film no orchid for miss blandish and have 1920s heiress kim darby kidnap by a pack of clumsy thief while soon and that gang be dispatch and poor kim be then transfer into the clutch of another crooked bunch third rate gangster brother with sweaty and pasty face and a mother who look like buddy ebsen in drag . at first and darby ( not very plucky and and not very smart ) attempt to escape this drooling brood and but theyre onto her . eventually she just give up try and and therein lie the trouble with the story . be we in the audience suppose to sympathize with her . be her grow concern for the family half wit suppose to be heartwarming . these be disgust and cretinous character and and i want to see a little of them a possible . but since the side story ( the progress of the cop on the case and another one involve floozy singer connie stevens ) be rather dull and the director have no choice but to keep foist those sweaty face on u . pretty soon and nervous darby start sweat too and although her scene up in the hayloft be sensitively perform and aldrich climactic moment be think provoking and if disorganize . from .