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The Sleeping Tiger

Victor Hanbury [Joseph Losey]
UK      89 m.
Synopsis

After his exile from the United States, Losey made his debut in British cinema alongside Dirk Bogarde, later to become one of his actors fetiche. Bogarde plays a thug who attempts to rob a brilliant psychoanalyst, only to end up becoming the guinea pig in an experiment: to reform his delinquent tendencies. In this first British piece, signed as Victor Hanbury, Losey tested the strained atmospheres of human relations that would go on to earn him great fame only a few years later.

Director
Victor Hanbury [Joseph Losey]
Screenplay
Derek Frye, Joseph Losey
Production
Insignia Films, Dorast Pictures
Victor Hanbury [Joseph Losey]
Photography
Harry Waxman
Edition
Reginald Mills
Music
Malcolm Arnold
Cast
Alexis Smith, Dirk Bogarde, Alexander Knox, Hugh Griffith, Patricia McCarron
Running Time
89 m.
Country
UK
Year
1954
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