Tiger Bay
1959
A 12-year-old Hayley Mills made her big-screen debut in this melodramatic thriller as Gillie, a young girl living in Cardiff. She accidentally witnesses a Polish sailor named Korchinsky shoot his girlfriend dead in a fit of rage after he finds out she's left him for another man. Gillie steals the murder weapon, and tries to get .. Read more
| Starring | John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Anthony Dawson |
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| Director | J. Lee Thompson |
| Genres | Drama |
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Tiger Bay
A 12-year-old Hayley Mills made her big-screen debut in this melodramatic thriller as Gillie, a young girl living in Cardiff. She accidentally witnesses a Polish sailor named Korchinsky shoot his girlfriend dead in a fit of rage after he finds out she's left him for another man. Gillie steals the murder weapon, and tries to get away. But Korchinsky succeeds in catching up with the little girl, with Investigating Officer Graham (John Mills) in hot pursuit, but finds that he just cannot harm the child. When the lonely duo form an unlikely bond, Gillie realises that she must mislead the police if she is to save her new-found friend.
| Starring | John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Anthony Dawson, Megs Jenkins, Yvonne Mitchell |
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| Director | J. Lee Thompson |
| Studio | ITV DVD |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 42 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 17 May 2008 Production year: 1959 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Hayley Mills gives an astonishing performance here in her film debut, playing a young girl who befriends murderous sailor Horst Buchholz and hinders detective John Mills's investigation at every turn. The “kid and the killer” plot had cropped up regularly during the 1950s and this variation has nothing new to say on the subject. But J Lee Thompson (always a fine director of children) surrounds 12-year-old Hayley with credible characters and faithfully captures the sights and sounds of Cardiff's docklands.
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Generally very proficient police chase melodrama with strong characterizations: a considerable box-office success of its time.
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Tiger Bay
I'm not a massive fan of black & white film - I'm all about the colour which I realise is limiting my horizons somewhat but what can you do? I only thought to rent this because I had just written an article about the destruction of 1950s Tiger Bay in Cardiff and I liked Hayley Mills in Pollyanna.
As it was, I was very pleasantly surprised.
The story of a young girl who witnesses a Polish sailor kill his lover in a jealous fit of rage, a whole range of emotions are to be found in a mere 105 minutes. The relationship that emerges between Gillie (Hayley Mills) and sailor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) is believable, beautiful and tragic to the last.
To a modern audience, the pace may seem to move quite slowly but the tension of the film is so great that this hardly signifies. You find yourself ensnared by the characters almost immediately - their plight becomes your plight and, although you know the ending is inevitable, you cannot help but will it to be otherwise.
Watch the film; it's short and you won't regret it. (And it certainly doesn't hurt that Buchholz is fantastically good-looking.) -
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Great
I have always loved Horst Buchholz especially in the Magnificent Seven
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