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English. Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It stars John Mills as a police superintendent investigating a murder; his real-life daughter Hayley Mills, in her first major film role, as a girl who witnesses the murder; and Horst Buchholz as a young sailor who commits the murder in a moment of passion.
Tiger Bay: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Yvonne Mitchell. A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- J. Lee Thompson
- 1959-12-14
Jun 2, 2021 · Tiger Bay 1959. Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film based on the short story "Rodolphe et le Revolver" by Noël Calef. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson, produced by John Hawkesworth, and co-written by John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith (pseudonym of Nancy Hermione Bodington). It stars John Mills as a police superintendent ...
Jun 2, 2020 · The film led to her five-year contract with Walt Disney and the title role in his new film version of Polyanna (1960). Even without that bit of history, Tiger Bay (1959) still stands as a powerful thriller and an important transitional film between the classic British cinema of the 1940s and 1950s and the British New Wave of the 1960s.
- J. Lee Thompson
- John Mills
Tiger Bay (1959) Tiger Bay (1959) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis Rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie (Hayley Mills) witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting ...
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- J. Lee Thompson
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Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It stars John Mills as a police superintendent investigating a murder; his real-life daughter Hayley Mills, in her first major film role, as a girl who witnesses the murder; and Horst Buchholz as a young sailor who commits the murder in a moment of passion.
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In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
