The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
With Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Billie Whitelaw, Glyn Houston, Hugh Griffith, Maxine Audley
Directed by Joseph Losey
The Sleeping Tiger is a 1954 British film noir directed by Joseph Losey, from a screenplay by Harold Buchman and Carl Foreman, and starring Alexis Smith, Dirk Bogarde and Alexander Knox. It was Losey's first British feature, which he directed under the fronting of producer Victor Hanbury, due to being blacklisted in the McCarthy Era. The film is about a petty thief (Bogarde) who agrees to be the test subject of an affluent psychiatrist (Knox), but the doctor's wife (Smith) becomes infatuated with him.
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