
Tiger in the Smoke
Tiger in the Smoke is a 1956 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker (billed as Roy Baker) and starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles and Christopher Rhodes. It is based on the 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham. The film is set in a noirish smog-shrouded London and briefly in Brittany, France, and combines the genres of mystery, thriller, crime and drama. The cinematography was by Geoffrey Unsworth.
Plot
Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero reported missing in action in France, Meg Elgin, now engaged to Geoffrey Leavitt, is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison, a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing to charge him with, the police release him.
More details
author | Anthony Pelissier |
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contentLocation | London |
director | Roy Ward Baker |
editor | John D. Guthridge |
genre | crime drama mystery thriller |
keywords | attack beg brittany capture cid commando criminal investigation department dead husband engage france french police london railway station madonna masquerade meet missing in action nothing railway station rescue serve set up street musician street musicians suspect war hero world war ii |
musicBy | Malcolm Arnold |
producer | Leslie Parkyn |
productionCompany | Rank Organisation |
publisher | Rank Organisation |
recordedAt | Pinewood Studios |
theme | noir war |