The Sleeping Tiger | |
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Directed by | Joseph Losey |
Screenplay by | Harold Buchman Carl Foreman |
Based on | The Sleeping Tiger by Maurice Moiseiwitsch |
Produced by | Victor Hanbury Stuart Levy Joseph Losey |
Starring | Alexis Smith Alexander Knox Dirk Bogarde |
Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
Edited by | Reginald Mills |
Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
Production companies | Insignia Films Dorast Pictures |
Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $300,000[1] |
The Sleeping Tiger is a 1954 British film noir directed by Joseph Losey and starring Alexis Smith, Dirk Bogarde and Alexander Knox. It was Losey's first British feature, which he directed under the pseudonym of Victor Hanbury due to being blacklisted in the McCarthy Era.[2] It was shot at Walton Studios and on location in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Stoll. It was released by Anglo-Amalgamated while in America it was distributed by Astor Pictures.