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Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I think this is my favorite film with Hayley Mills.
Review: The way this film was directed focuses very well on the characters. The emotions of the characters are presented very strongly and one is brought into the plot. Hayley and her dad, John Mills, who is also in it play well off each other and the relationship that her character has with the co-star is charming and touching. I also am blessed by the lesson of the film, but I can't tell you that because it might spoil it for you. If you enjoy Hayley Mills and her dad in this film, as I do; check out The Chalk Garden and the Truth About Spring. I hope you enjoy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Tiger Bay-capturing greatness on film
Review: This film is still haunting me,more than twenty years since I last viewed it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Must Own Movie
Review: Tiger Bay takes place in Cardiff, Wales. An 11 year old girl is the only witness to a murder of a woman by her sailor boyfriend. The child is followed after the murder to a church, where she sings in the choir. After the service the murderer corners the child in the church. A confrontation ensues. This was the acting debut of Hayley Mills on whose shoulders rest the core of the movie. Her father John Mills plays the police inspector who tries to discern the truth from the child. Horst Buchholz is the sailor who committed the murder. This is one of the finest films you are ever likely to see.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Affecting Movie of Subtle Truths
Review: You'll remember this movie - in part because of the imaginative details it employs, in part because it is entirely outside any "formula". It has a suspenseful plot, but it also has so many smaller qualities of truthfulness about children and the ways adults interact with them and accept or don't accept them.

I don't know why the British do this so very well - think of The Fallen Idol or Whistle Down the Wind (also with Hayley Mills) which are also wonderful. These three movies let you observe the children and don't push things down your throat. Almost all the characters in these three movies are sympathetic, yet in sharp conflict.

The direction and editing are first-rate, the performances by all are excellent, the plot is exciting.


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