Tiger in the Smoke (1956)DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5600 kbps | 4.0Gb
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01:34:00 | UK | Crime, Drama, ThrillerTiger in the Smoke is a 1956 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles and Christopher Rhodes. It is based on the 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham, although the film omits the principal character of Albert Campion. The film is set in a noirish smog-shrouded London, and combines the genres of mystery, thriller, crime and drama. The cinematography was by Geoffrey Unsworth.
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles, Alec Clunes, Laurence Naismith, Christopher Rhodes, Charles Victor, Thomas Heathcote, Sam Kydd, Kenneth Griffith, Gerald Harper, Wensley Pithey, Stanley Rose, Stratford Johns, Brian Wilde, Hilda Barry, Beatrice Varley, Percy Herbert, Violet Gould, Marianne Stone, Dandy Nichols
IMDb"I saw this gripping,atmospheric little picture on its initial British release half a century ago.I was eight years old,and it's one of a handful of British pictures from that era which haunted me for years. It's very rarely shown on British T.V.,so I never got to see it again until 1985. It had held up remarkably well, and I've watched the videotaped copy I made several times since. As far as I'm aware it was never made commercially available on video, and I'm hoping it might join the growing number of rare British thrillers from the fifties made available on DVD.
Director Roy Baker is probably best known these days for the horror pictures he made for Hammer and Amicus in the seventies, all of which are markedly inferior to his earlier British work. His first picture, the moody psychological thriller "The October Man",(1948) starring John Mills,is exceptionally good, and "Tiger in the Smoke" has all the same virtues; a strong cast of seasoned character actors, a pungent sense of place, highly effective suspense and a sinister aura of moral decay. Early scenes involving a seedy gang of ex-commando street musicians are masterly.
Muriel Pavlow was surely the most beautiful and talented of the Rank Organisation "charm school" actresses, and Tony Wright is chillingly effective as the psychotic Johnny Havoc, whose search for hidden treasure sets the Description in motion. The critic and theorist Raymond Durgnat wrote in 1969 that this was the most dreamlike British film outside of the horror genre. It deserves wider appreciation.
~ southernferrets"
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