Tiger Bay

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Tiger Bay is a 1959 British crime drama film starring a young Hayley Mills in one of her earliest and most acclaimed screen roles.

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instanceOf film
awardReceived Golden Bear (shared) at Berlin International Film Festival
basedOn short story "Rodolphe et le revolver"
basedOnWorkAuthor Noël Calef
cinematographyBy Eric Cross
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director J. Lee Thompson
distributedBy Rank Organisation
distributorRegion United Kingdom theatrical release
editedBy John D. Guthridge
featuresCharacter Gillian
Korchinsky
filmingLocation Cardiff
Newport
genre crime film
drama film
hasColorProcess black-and-white
hasFormat feature film
hasTheme childhood
crime
loyalty
moral ambiguity
motionPictureRating PG (later home media classifications)
musicBy Laurie Johnson
narrativeFocus friendship between a young girl and a Polish sailor
notableFor early screen role of Hayley Mills
originalLanguage English
partOf British New Wave era context
presentedAt 9th Berlin International Film Festival
producer John Hawkesworth
productionCompany Beaver Films
releaseDate 1959-05-18
releaseYear 1959
runningTime 105 minutes
screenwriter John Hawkesworth
Shelagh Delaney
setIn Cardiff
Tiger Bay district of Cardiff
linked to: Tiger Bay, Cardiff
starring Anthony Dawson
George Selway
Hayley Mills
Horst Buchholz
John Mills
Yvonne Mitchell
targetAudience general audience
timePeriodOfSetting contemporary to late 1950s

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