June 1948 (No Orchids for Miss Blandish)

Cover your eyes, plebs - our 'betters' once thought this would topple
the walls of civilisation! No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1947)

• Arthur Takes Over (USA - 1948 - bw)

• Bond Street (UK - 1948 - bw)

• The Calendar (UK - 1948 - bw)
• Calling Paul Temple (UK - 1948 - bw)
• The Clouded Crystal (UK - 1948 - bw)
• Cup-Tie Honeymoon (UK - 1948 - bw)

• Daybreak (UK - 1946 - bw)

• The Eternal Husband (see: homme au chapeau rond, L')
• Exposed (USA - 1947 - bw)

• The Fabulous Texan (USA - 1947 - bw)
• Fall Guy (USA - 1947 - bw)
• The Flame (USA - 1947 - bw)
• Fort Apache (USA - 1948 - bw)
• Four Steps in the Clouds (4 passi fra le nuvole) (It - 1942 - bw)

• Glamour Girl (see: Night Club Girl)
• A Gunman Has Escaped (UK - 1948 - bw)

• Hamlet (UK - 1948 - bw)
• Hazard (USA - 1948 - bw)
• High Wall (USA - 1947 - bw)
• Holidays With Pay (UK - 1948 - bw) ¹
• L’homme au chapeau rond /USA: The Eternal Husband (Fr - 1946 - bw)
• House of Darkness (UK - 1948 - bw)

• The Inside Story (USA - 1948 - bw)

• Killer at Large (USA - 1947 - bw)
• Kilroy Was Here (USA - 1947 - bw)
• Kreutzer Sonata (Celos) (Arg - 1946 - bw)

• The Last Load (UK - 1948 - bw)
• Life With Father (USA - 1947)

• The Monkey’s Paw (UK - 1948 - bw)
• My Girl Tisa (USA - 1947 - bw)
• My Hands Are Clay (Ire - 1948 - bw)
• My Sister and I (UK - 1948 - bw)
• My Wild Irish Rose (USA - 1947 - bw)

• The Naked City (USA - 1948 - bw)
• Night Club Girl (Glamour Girl) (USA - 1948 - bw)
• No Orchids for Miss Blandish (UK - 1948 - bw) ²

• Philo Vance’s Secret Mission (USA - 1947 - bw)

• The Pretender (USA - 1947 - bw)

• Quattro passi fra le nuvole [see: Four Steps in the Clouds]

• Sans lendemain /USA: There’s No Tomorrow (Fr - 1939 - bw)
• Secrets of the North (White Safari) (Can - 1946 - bw)
• Song for Tomorrow (UK - 1948 - bw)

• That Hagen Girl (USA - 1947 - bw)
• There's No Tomorrow (see: Sans lendemain)
• Too Many Winners (USA - 1947 - bw)
• Trailing Danger (USA - 1947 - bw)
• Trinity House (UK - 1947 - bw)

• Trouble in the Air (UK - 1948 - bw)
• Twilight on the Rio Grande (USA - 1947 - bw)

• Uneasy Terms (UK - 1948 - bw)
• The Unsuspected (USA - 1947 - bw)

• Violence (USA - 1947 - bw)

• White Safari (see: Secrets of the North)
• The Wistful Widow (The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap) (USA - 1947 - bw)
• The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (see: Wistful Widow, The)
• The Woman From Tangier (USA - 1947 - bw)

¹ Subsequently issued as a couple of short films: Seaside Frolics (1960) and Tonight's the Nite (1960).

² This routine B-movie caused an unexpected storm of controversy on its release, with a craven Monthly Film Bulletin leading the charge: "This must be the most sickening exhibition of brutality, perversion, sex and sadism ever to be shown on a cinema screen... the cast literally battle their way through a script laden with suggestive dialogue. All the women are sluts and most of the men vicious murderers... scenes of unpleasant bedroom interludes and revolting orgies of beating-up and murder almost on the scale of massacre... It seems an extraordinary oversight on the part of the British Board of Film Censors that this monstrosity has been passed for public showing with an A certificate." After several councils banned the film outright (prompted by 'outrage' in Parliament), an utterly perplexed BBFC was forced to apologise for 'failing to protect the public'! The Board was clearly the victim of a manufactured scandal, one of many whipped-up over the years by self-proclaimed moral arbiters peddling bogus claims of 'harm' to cloak their real objectives: Maintenance of the social and political status quo via the application of rigid censorship rules for commercial films aimed primarily at working class audiences. As for No Orchids for Miss Blandish, contemporary cinemagoers had the last laugh, since the hysterical overreaction by our 'betters' propelled the film to huge commercial success wherever it played!

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