The Sleeping Tiger

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The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

10/05/1954 (US) Drama, Thriller 1h 29m

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Overview

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

Joseph Losey

Director
Maurice Moisiewitsch

Novel
Carl Foreman

Screenplay
Harold Buchman

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Dirk Bogarde

Frank Clemmons
Alexis Smith

Glenda Esmond
Alexander Knox

Dr. Clive Esmond
Hugh Griffith

Inspector Simmons
Patricia McCarron

Sally Foster, maid
Maxine Audley

Carol
Glyn Houston

Bailey
Harry Towb

Harry, second criminal
Russell Waters

Manager of Pearce & Mann
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A review by John Chard

75%

Written by John Chard on November 2, 2013

In this personality it's a tiger, a sleeping tiger.

The Sleeping Tiger is directed by Joseph Losey (using the alias Victor Hanbury) and adapted to screenplay by Derek Frye from the novel written by Maurice Moiseiwitswch. It stars Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Patricia McCarron, Maxine Audley and Hugh Griffith. Music is by Malcolm Arnold and cinematography by Harry Waxman.

When criminal Frank Clemmons (Bogarde) fails in his attempt to mug psychiatrist Dr. Clive Esmond (Knox), he is surprised to be invited to stay at the good doctor's house instead of going to prison. The do... read the rest.

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