The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

Directed by

Joseph Losey

Genre

film noir, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young petty thief is taken in by a wealthy psychiatrist for treatment. The doctor's wife becomes infatuated with the thief, leading to dangerous tensions in their household.

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What happens

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. The film was released in the United Kingdom by Anglo-Amalgamated on 21 June 1954. It was a commercial success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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