Dir: Joseph Losey | Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox | Drama 89’
Even today Victor Hanbury is still regularly described just as a mere pseudonym for the blacklisted American director Joseph Losey with the themes in ‘The Sleeping Tiger’ usually attributed to Losey.
Hanbury though had been very much a real person whose career went back to the thirties and dealt with similar subjects in films he had recently produced like ‘Death Comes to School’ and ‘Glad Tidings’.
Alexander Knox in the first of several roles for Losey plays a typically obtuse Hanbury male completely oblivious to the passion welling within his wife – played by Alexei Smith who Losey when she first arrived took her to Speakers Corner where she was staggered to hear people openly saying things that would get them lynched or arrested back home – for bad boy Dirk Bogarde. @RichardChatten
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