The Grissom Gang by Robert Aldrich is a film about a family among people characterized as 'white trash' and how they by chance get a chance to blackmail a rich man by kidnapping his daughter.
This family consists of a mother who is tougher and more ruthless than her sons, a father who is under her thumb and four sons, among them 'Slim', a psychopath who falls in love with the rich young woman they kidnap.
Slim's mother wants to kill the young woman after receiving the ransom.
It's just because of 'Slim' that she survives as the others, due to his psychopathic character, dare not touch her as she now has become his 'wife'. She plays along with him to survive.
Gradually though she is in someway attracted by him or rather feel sorry for him.
Her father engage a private eye and the police to catch the kidnapers but the feelings for his daughter gradually changes when he get's to know that she live together with 'Slim'.
A lot of violence but the overall impression is a positive one.
A better film than some of the others we have seen by Aldrich this autumn.
In the principal roles we see: Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante and Robert Lansing.
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