The Sleeping Tiger

1954
Approved
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

After a convict breaks in a psychotherapist's home, he agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him.After a convict breaks in a psychotherapist's home, he agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him.After a convict breaks in a psychotherapist's home, he agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Photos43

+ 36

More like this

6.4

6.7

6.5

6.7

6.7

6.1

6.8

5.4

7.0

New York Confidential

5.9

Escape in the Fog

6.4

Fingerman

6.3

The Whole Truth

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
When this movie first appeared, the direction was credited to Victor Hanbury, a real-life Producer, who only agreed to take the credit when the actual Director, the blacklisted Joseph Losey, insisted that this would be a great help to him, as he needed the work. Although several versions of this movie, including the DVD, still credit Hanbury, there are prints where Losey is credited under his own name. The first several times it was shown on British television, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Losey had the credit.

Goofs
Angry that Frank has left her Glenda wearing a black dress runs from the house, jumps in her car and drives off. Spotting Frank (Dirk Bogarde) walking along the road she stops and picks him up but she's now wearing a coat.

Quotes
Glenda Esmond: You're not going to give me notice, like a servant or a waitress!

Connections
Featured in Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names (1998)

User reviews32

Featured review

6/10

A selected case study

Alexis Smith was one of many American stars who came to the United Kingdom to find work which was becoming less and less in Hollywood as less feature films were being made.. She was lucky to get this role opposite rising British cinema favorite Dirk Bogarde.

Smith plays the wife of criminal psychologist Alexander Knox who believes that with some analysis some criminals can be cured. So far not different than those two Hollywood classics Blind Alley and The Dark Past. But in those cases criminals broke into the homes of psychologists Ralph Bellamy and Lee J. Cobb and under stress the two mental health professionals did some probing.

But Bogarde is a selected case study. He's paroled to Knox and gets to live in his home where Smith finds the sexy Bogarde impossible to resist.

Bogarde is Stanley Kowalski with a criminal record if this film had been made on this side of the pond Marlon Brando would have been an obvious choice for the part. Let's say that Knox should have kept his business and professional life separate. Smith is great as a forty something woman in some serious heat.

One person I always enjoy seeing in British films is Hugh Griffith who always brings something to even a relatively colorless part like a police inspector here.

Blacklisted director Joseph Losey directed The Sleeping Tiger and it's a fine piece of work