Tiger Bay (1959 film)

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Tiger Bay (1959 film) is a British crime drama centered on a young girl who witnesses a murder in Cardiff’s docklands, noted for its gritty realism and early performance by Hayley Mills.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
awardReceived Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear (shared)
basedOn short story "Rodolphe et le revolver"
blackAndWhite true
certificate A (British Board of Film Censors)
cinematographyBy Erwin Hillier
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception positive
director J. Lee Thompson
distributor Rank Organisation
editor John D. Guthridge
featuresCharacter Gillian
Korchinsky
Superintendent Graham
filmingLocation Cardiff docks
filmingTechnique location shooting
genre crime film
drama film
hasChildProtagonist true
hasTheme childhood and moral ambiguity
immigration and alienation
urban working-class life
musicBy Laurie Johnson
narrativeFocus young girl who witnesses a murder
narrativeLocationType docklands
notableFor early screen performance by Hayley Mills
gritty realism
originalLanguage English
partOf British New Wave era context
producer John Hawkesworth
productionCompany Beaver Films
releaseDate 1959-05-18
releaseYear 1959
runtimeMinutes 105
screenDebutOf Hayley Mills
screenwriter John Hawkesworth
Shelagh Delaney
setIn Cardiff
Tiger Bay, Cardiff
starring Anthony Dawson
Hayley Mills
Horst Buchholz
John Mills
Megs Jenkins
Yvonne Mitchell
timePeriodOfSetting contemporary late 1950s

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