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Tiger Bay
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1hr 47min
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January 1, 1959
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Image Entertainment
Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Hayley Mills made her film starring debut in the location-filmed melodrama Tiger Bay. Horst Buchholz plays a Polish sailor who, while docked in Cardiff, jealously murders his ex-girlfriend Yvonne Mitchell. The killing is witnessed by Hayley, a lonely, hoydenish preteen whose only interest in the crime is Buccholz' abandoned gun. Hayley picks up the weapon, intending to impress the other kids in town. She succeeds only in attracting the attention of police inspector John Mills (Hayley's ... Full Synopsis
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Fourteen years before psychologists coined the term "Stockholm syndrome," this 1959 film skillfully explored the bizarre irony of its main symptom: the sympathy a captive exhibits for his or her captor. And the film did so with excruciating suspense and a remarkable performance by young Hayley Mills in her film debut. Stockholm syndrome entered the English lexicon in 1973 when four released hostages ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Supt. Graham
Korchinsky
Gillie
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