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The Sleeping Tiger was the beginning of Losey's partnership with Dirk Bogarde, whom he later directed in The Servant, King & Country, Modesty Blaise and Accident, and with editor Reginald Mills who edited The Servant and King & Country. Reception. According to Kinematograph Weekly the film was a "money maker" at the British box office in 1954.
A convict breaks into a psychotherapist's home and agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest, but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him. Directed by Joseph Losey (using alias) and starring Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith and Alexander Knox.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Joseph Losey
- 1954-10-08
"The Sleeping Tiger" is an overblown melodrama with just enough character development and film noir elements to make it interesting. A decent cast also helps the movie along quite nicely.
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- Joseph Losey
- Drama
- Dirk Bogarde
Oct 29, 2022 · The Sleeping Tiger [Dirk Bogarde] [1954] Great psychological noir with Bogarde playing a similar role to The Servant where he infiltrates a home and corrupts his hosts.
Apr 28, 2024 · The Sleeping Tiger (1954) Publication date. 1954. Topics. 1954, 9Honey Movies. The Sleeping Tiger. A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in the web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and the doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him. Starring: Alexis Smith, Dirk Bogarde, Alexander Knox.
- 89 min
A petty thief is trapped by a psychiatrist who wants to experiment on him and his wife who wants to seduce him. The Sleeping Tiger is a drama thriller based on a novel by Carl Foreman and directed by Joseph Losey.
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Everyone has a “sleeping tiger” inside them that can attack at any moment under certain pressures, according to psychiatrist Clive Esmond (Alexander Knox) in Joseph Losey’s The Sleeping Tiger, where such tigers are unexpectedly plentiful. The legendary Dirk Bogarde plays petty criminal Frank Clemmons, whose unsuccessful attempt at mugging ...
