Tiger Bay

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Tiger Bay was a great movie for a number of reasons. I will admit the kid and the killer plot is very familiar territory, and while the film offers very little new it is still a remarkable and I think underrated movie. The best element was the truly terrific debut performance of Hayley Mills. Quite frankly, her performance is one of the greatest child performances ever, that's how good it was. The plot about a young girl befriending a murderous sailor and her attempts to hinder the detective's investigation is still suspenseful and clever, and still manages to be intriguing in the slower moments. The cinematography is fabulous, and perfectly captures the sights of the Cardiff docklands and of Hayley's photogenic face. Also J Lee Thompson is a fine director of children, and directs Hayley with care and precision. Even more remarkable is the credible characters and the supporting acting of Hayley's father the wonderful John Mills and Horst Buchholz. All in all, a very good movie. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Tiger Bay seems to be a pastiche of two earlier British movies, Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol (1948) and Charles Crichton's Hunted (1952). It's clearly below their standard, they already have said it all, and said it better, what can be said about children who feel lonely, are attracted to „strange men" and find themselves burdened with responsibilities too heavy for a child. So Tiger Bay appears to have been made mainly for the purpose of launching the career of child actress Hayley Mills. She plays a wild tomboy of a girl that can be cute but is often just plain nasty or annoying. She is introduced to the audience as she is tripping up a boy who is running past, without apparent reason. She is given more screen time than would have been necessary and overacts the way children do when they are provoked and „heated up". German heartthrob Horst Buchholz plays the „strange man". Frankly, he is no match for either Ralph Richardson or Dirk Bogarde who played the part in the afore mentioned movies. Weird detail. The adults all wear pullovers or heavy coats. Their breath steams which indicates that it must be pretty cold. Yet Hailey Mills at all times has nothing on but a thin, short sleeved T-shirt. None of the adults offer her an additional garment so that she keeps warm. This may have been intentional to show the alienation or the cruelty of the adult world, I found it just unnecessarily unkind and also distracting as I seriously started to worry about the child's health. I can warmly recommend Tiger Bay to people who are interested in movie presentations of specific townscapes. In this aspect it is a great movie with a lot of outdoor scenes, not unlike On the Waterfront, in fact. Tiger Bay was a real place, in the town of Cardiff, capital of Wales, Great Britain. It took me three clicks in the internet – what a great invention! – to find out about the location. Here is what www.bbc.co.uk says: Tiger Bay was notorious. A slice of red-light district and gambling dens between Cardiff's city centre and its docks, and home to a rich mix of multi-racial communities (singer Shirley Bassey came from here), it had a powerful character of its own. Its rundown terraces, pubs and shops were demolished in the late 1960s, and now restaurants and sought-after executive flats stand in its place (unquote). In the movie an amazing amount of attention is given to the multi racial aspect. The children who roam the neighbourhood are of different ethnic backgrounds and seem to mingle freely. Hayley Mill's character sings in the racially mixed church choir while a wedding of Caribbeans is performed. Later, in the dark of the night, she and Buchholz watch from afar the Caribbean wedding party from a distance, with Calypso songs and the sound of a small steel band. It is the most beautiful scene of the whole, very well photographed movie.

Although quite familiar with nearly every scene and plot twist, it was interesting to view Tiger Bay as a grownup. It's an adult movie about a child's emerging sense of morality. Initially, Gillie is all about telling lies just to get her way (a toy bomb, an extra shilling, an hour of independence) and then gradually (you can actually perceive the wheels turning in her head) she realizes that lies can also serve to protect a loved one. The film is very good, but it's really all about Hayley Mills; she's fairly astonishing. She doesn't just steal the movie by being cute; she carefully delivers a thoughtful performance. Her character grows by learning to care for someone (breaking in new, unselfish emotions), developing her own standards for right and wrong, and experiencing raw heartbreak. The interrogation scenes where she spontaneously calculates her responses while barely concealing that everything's a lie - they're so realistic, they're genius. Remember that scene in the church loft? It starts out agonizingly suspenseful and scary; if you'd never seen the film before , you'd wonder, is she going to accidentally wound him? end up controlling him? Is he going to keep chasing after her, eventually kidnap her? And then gradually, through brief exchanges, they recognize that they are kindred souls - misfits, lonely, misunderstood, unappreciated. Within minutes, the scene has mellowed into this moment where they look at each other over a burning candle and spontaneously grin at each other. You can also glimpse and interject an interesting back story for Gillie: she's an orphan living with her aunt, Mrs. Phillips. So where's Mr. Phillips? Killed in WWII? They don't say. Gillie is obviously a recent transplant (a kid yells "go back to London!" at the beginning), she's apparently an orphan, and she's growing up neglected in this Cardiff tenement where bitter war-torn grownups are barely hanging on to their lives. You perceive these details as an adult, and they add new layers. Apparently Hayley got a lot of international attention after this movie, and not just from Disney. Certainly director J. Lee Thompson The Guns of Navarone)had much to do with coaxing Hayley's performance, but the talent and charisma are all hers.

This movie seem quite realistic to me. The girl played by Hayley Mills is not a sickeningly sweet creature, she acts out in a way that a troubled girl of her situation and background WOULD. She is lovable but no goody two shoes. I liked that. What is so touching is that because she is a child, she makes child-like mistakes that ruin her good intentions. Horst Buchholz also gives a fine performance. Though his usual gorgeous self, he is a bit more grizzled, or do I mean grizzly? than he looked in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN or the wonderful FANNY, and since he is on the run and never gets to shave in TIGER BAY, I guess that's appropriate. John Mills is superb, as always. Now there is an actor who didn't need to inject his own ego into every performance, and who cared about great acting more than about fame and stardom. The film never drags, it's an almost flawless movie. The Mills-Buchholz relationship is touching on screen and apparently they got on very well off screen. There are other kinds of love besides romantic love; this is a good example.

There's a class of movie that instead of transporting us to another world, it keeps us in the same world, but introduces a person not of this world. The most common of these concern innocent children, usually in the face of some dirty element of the world. One wonders what the value of these are, and why they keep being made. ("Sixth Sense" twisted the formula a bit.) I haven't yet settled this matter in my mind. But if you have, you may find this small project one of the best -- that is to say that the projected innocence of the child is extreme and endearing. John Mills follows the theatrical adage of never passing up an opportunity, and it is his daughter that is highlighted here, Unfortunately for us, the world isn't very threatening, in fact the other kids (and perhaps a priest) are the meanest things we see. The cop (played by the dad) is a good, patient man. The killer is too. When you put together your private film school syllabus, you may want to include the scene where she recounts the murder to the police. Discard the rest. Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

There were plenty of British crime thrillers about at that time. They were pretty black and white not only in photography. Here we have one that strikes out on its own. Here the differences between good and bad are blurred. Indeed towards the end, we find ourselves hoping that the Polish sailor gets clean away. Unusually for a crime thriller, we have some pretty good acting from the two central characters, one of them a child, played by the daughter of John Mills (who plays a detective). German actor Horst Bucholz plays the part of the Pole. The setting is Cardiff, and some of the street types are pretty good, and very atmospheric. At a time when Britain was turning out some pretty rotten stuff, this is a film that is very watchable, quite well written and well acted.

. This comment is based on the memory. In my country we have not still had the luck that their V.H.S neither their D.V.D are published. Neither she has recovered in the cinematographs, neither it has never been exhibited by T.V. neither for Cable. Filmed in white and black when already the color, the "panoramic screen", the "Cinemascope" and until the "Cinerama" they invaded the cinematographs from all over the world. Their picture and alignment are outstanding. With some (for then) unwonted first planes (the eye of Hayley to the whole screen still impresses me, in spite of those almost 43 lapsed years). Horst Bucholz their character composed masterfully (maybe the best in his career). The premiere of Hayley Mills (it photographed as the gods) he made denounce a blinding future (and not because his dad was anything less than John Mills). The climate and the flunk are perfectly achieved and dosed. A really excellent movie...and that it shares with some few ones the virtue of remaining in the memory as if the has seen ago alone a moment.

Tiger Bay is the first picture of famous child star Hayley Mills. Daughter of John Mills, who also costars in this film about love, murder and unlikely friendship. Hayley Mills play a rebelious girl who lives with her poor aunt in a cheap housing block. She witnesses a murder in an adjoining flat. After initially running from the murderer, he catches her and she forms an unlikely friendship with him. Subsequently she lies to protect him and some fascinating drama ensues. John Mills plays a policeman on the crime case. Hayley Mills steals the show and is absolutely fantastic. John Mills is great as well, he's still alive believe it or not, in his mid 90's now I think. Lots of tension, drama, and plenty of chase scenes. If you like this you might want to check out 'Whistle Down The Wind' another Hayley Mills classic. I give this one 4 stars out of 5.