Blood and Lace is a 1971 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Philip Gilbert

Philip Gilbert

Philip Gilbert was a Canadian actor.He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and educated at Vancouver College...

, starring Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame was an American Academy Award–winning actress.Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life , MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios...

, Melody Patterson

Melody Patterson

Melody Patterson is an American actress best known for her role as Wrangler Jane in the 1960s TV series F Troop...

, Len Lesser

Len Lesser

Leonard King "Len" Lesser was an American actor. He was known for a key role in the Clint Eastwood movie Kelly's Heroes and his recurring role as Uncle Leo in Seinfeld, which began during the show's second season in "The Pony Remark" episode.-Early life:Lesser was born in The Bronx in 1922...

, and Milton Selzer

Milton Selzer

Milton Selzer was an American stage, film, and television actor.-Early life:Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Selzer and his family moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire where he was raised. After graduating from Portsmouth High School, he attended the University of New Hampshire before serving in World...

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Plot

After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while
they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an
isolated orphanage run by Mrs. Deere and her handyman. Taking an
avid interest in her welfare is detective Calvin Carruthers.
Taking almost no interest at all, is social worker Harold Mullins
who is completely under Mrs. Deere's thumb. Lots of unpleasant
surprises are in store for Ellie, not the least of which is the
fact that Mrs. Deere and her handyman are both brutal sadists,
who run the orphanage like a concentration camp and the strong
possibility that her mother's hammer-wielding killer is now
stalking her.

Cast

• Gloria Grahame
  Gloria Grahame
  Gloria Grahame was an American Academy Award–winning actress.Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life , MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios...
  
   as Mrs.Deere
• Melody Patterson
  Melody Patterson
  Melody Patterson is an American actress best known for her role as Wrangler Jane in the 1960s TV series F Troop...
  
   as Ellie Masters
• Milton Selzer
  Milton Selzer
  Milton Selzer was an American stage, film, and television actor.-Early life:Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Selzer and his family moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire where he was raised. After graduating from Portsmouth High School, he attended the University of New Hampshire before serving in World...
  
   as Mr. Mullins
• Len Lesser
  Len Lesser
  Leonard King "Len" Lesser was an American actor. He was known for a key role in the Clint Eastwood movie Kelly's Heroes and his recurring role as Uncle Leo in Seinfeld, which began during the show's second season in "The Pony Remark" episode.-Early life:Lesser was born in The Bronx in 1922...
  
   as Tom Kredge
• Vic Tayback
  Vic Tayback
  Victor "Vic" Tayback was an American actor.-Life and career:Tayback was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, the son of Helen and Najeeb James Tayback. His parents were immigrants from Aleppo, Syria. Tayback moved with his family to Burbank, California, during his teenage years and attended...
  
   as Calvin Carruthers
• Terri Messina as Bunch
• Ronald Taft as Walter
• Dennis Christopher
  Dennis Christopher
  Dennis Christopher is an American actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for playing Dave Stoller in Breaking Away and tragic film buff psychopath Eric Binford in Fade to Black....
  
   as Pete
• Peter Armstrong as Ernest
• Maggie Corey as Jennifer
• Mary Strawberry as Nurse
• Louise Sherrill as Edna Masters
• Joe Durkin as Unidentified Man