Tiger Bay (film)

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For the 1934 film of the same name, see Tiger Bay (1934 film).
Tiger Bay
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Produced by John Hawkesworth
Written by John Hawkesworth
Shelley Smith
Starring Hayley Mills
John Mills
Horst Buchholz
Music by Laurie Johnson
Cinematography Eric Cross
Editing by Sidney Hayers
Distributed by Rank Organisation
Release date(s) March, 1959
Running time 103 min.
Country Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language English
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Tiger Bay is a 1959 British film, starring John Mills, his daughter Hayley Mills in her first important film role, and Horst Buchholz.

Shot on location in the Tiger Bay district of Cardiff, and Newport (specifically Newport Transporter Bridge, 12 miles from Cardiff) it features many authentic scenes of the children's street culture, and the black street culture, of the time. It also features many dockside shots, scenes in real pubs and in the countryside that surrounds the area. The movie marks a vital transitional moment in the move towards the British New Wave cinema exemplified a few years later by A Taste of Honey (1961).

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Gillie, a young girl in Cardiff who is something of a tearaway, happens to witness Korchinsky, a Polish seaman, murder his girlfriend. In spite of this the two become friends. Korchinsky almost escapes on a merchant ship, but is pursued by Superintendent Graham, who boards his ship while just inside British waters, accompanied by Gillie as a witness.

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  • Williams, Melanie (2005). "I'm Not A Lady: Tiger Bay (1959) and transitional girlhood in British cinema on the cusp of the 1960s". Screen: Vol. 46, No. 3, Autumn 2005

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